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Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
There's always the question when you're making a documentary if the talking heads will work.
I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.
Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world.
They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.
As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.
I grew up all over the world, including countries such as Sweden, Norway, U.S.A., and Kuwait.
I like to put people into situations that are out of their comfort zone and see what happens.
I don't think I'm equipped enough to be giving anyone a civics lesson or any kind of message.
The United States military is probably the most socialistic institution in the United States.
We love bringing verisimilitude to audiences, hopefully having experiences you'll never have.
They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'
I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.
I lived in Indonesia for four years and I understand trance and magic and where it comes from.
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change
There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'
I've got to say, I've probably seen a lot more of the Three Stooges than of the Marx Brothers.
Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.
That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.
I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.
All the 'Hunger Games' stuff, we had a fantastic production designer, and he built amazing sets.
As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.
WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.
I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.
You will never - and I mean never - be able to figure out if I was an Obama guy or a Hillary guy.
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.
A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts.
It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.
To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.
Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.
There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.
I love animals. Even if you go back to my music video days, I can't tell you how many animals I used.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.