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I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.
In a science fiction film, you're uniquely responsible to pay respect to the science represented in the movie.
I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.
When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?
We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.
The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.
Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.
When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.
They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.
A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
'I Am Legend' was a rich, emotional experience where you could be scared and cry, and there's some wish fulfilment.
I think that the thing that is really strong with 'The Hunger Games' is just that it comes from a very strong idea.
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.
I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.
I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.
All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.
I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
Even in America, people have said again and again that they would be willing to sacrifice for a cleaner environment.
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.
I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.
[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
I shot part of 'Resurrecting the Champ' in Denver, and I spent a summer going to survival school in Colorado Springs.
Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
I'm eager to do movies of different genres. I would love to not be confined by genre and do a lot of different things.
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.
At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.
You can go on Nike's website and choose exactly what fabrics and colours and shapes you want your sneakers to come in.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.
I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.