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I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
I guess the way I shoot things is slightly influenced by the way videogames are cut and shot.
I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.
I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.
Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.
I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it.
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.
I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.
A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.
I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'
'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.
Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.
As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years
It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.
I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.
You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.
I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
I don't think anybody really loves the sound of their own voice, but the tweakability is huge.
I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.
I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.