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I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.
I knew I wouldn't have another day off for a while, so I needed to get to London immediately.
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
A lot of my friends are people who do horror films: Wes Craven, John Carpenter, Stephen King.
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.
I like the camera to be still and not very shaky and have everything happen within the frame.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.
I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.
Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.
Because my movies are not successful, they are not shown. So I make a living from the budget.
I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.
Qing Cheng Mountain was a direct influence on the mysterious final shot of 'Kung Fu Panda 2.'
It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.
I'm not biting my fingernails. I'm biting my knuckles. I finished the fingernails months ago.
I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience.
You hear nightmare stories from young filmmakers working in Hollywood, being told what to do.
I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.
The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.
We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.
I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.
I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.