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Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.
With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.
I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.
I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.
I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.
I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.
I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.
Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.