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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages.
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.
You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.
It's very strange, for example, in North Korea where the volcano at the Chinese border is some sort of the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.
The elections have a different platform, the town hall is the platform for it. But the other question behind all this is should I run for president?
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons.
My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were insane in a project of euthanasia.