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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.
I'm amazed. I go to these conventions, and the fans that come, sometimes my line goes all day.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
I'm a good Indian girl, I still don't do sex scenes in my movies because my mum would kill me!
I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.
Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.
I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.
I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
Anyone from my past I'm interested in, I've already stalked their homes. I like to go outside.
Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.
Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.
For filmmakers that want to have certain control, there are certain things you can't do in VR.
Working with Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, they're not just Chinese stars, they're movie stars.
I found my student of the year, and now Tata Nano is searching for India's student of the year
I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.
If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.
Going through the Chagrin Falls school system, I always thought I was going off to art school.
I'm not especially interested in actors or their life, double, triple identities and all that.
99 percent of the time when you cast right, it's a dream. If you cast wrong, it's a nightmare.
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?
One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.
It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.
I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.
I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical.
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.
Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.
I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.