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I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.
[My catholic education] sticked with me. It caused the rage I had to make 'Pink Flamingos.'
I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.
I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.
I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.
When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.
Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.
Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.
Straight talking and going on your instincts was important when I grew up. And being funny.
What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.
Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.
You've got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy's an apparition.
Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.
I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.
She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.
I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot.
The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.
As a kid I was always barefoot, always outside and as an adult I always want to be outside.
I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.
We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.
Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.
'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.
There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.
I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.
I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.'
All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.
When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
I never liked being told what to do, so even in school plays, I never liked being an actor.
There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.