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It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!
We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.
The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.
Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.
It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration .
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.
There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
The first element that I connected with was the emotion. Sorry, that's how it goes.
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.