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Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.
In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.
I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.
Films like 'Babel' can transcend the one point-of-view formula that has reigned for so long.
Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.
I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.
I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
I find it difficult enough being called "Mr. Boyle," which as I age I'm increasingly called.
I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.
Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.
I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.
Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.
I take a more holistic approach to fitness than trying to achieve a certain body to display.
Cinema, I always felt, is a very powerful mass medium to translate ideas in an engaging way.
No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.
I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
I personally like to see films that are the work of as singular a consciousness as possible.
I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.
In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.