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Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.
As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.
I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.
A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.
I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.
With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.
Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.
All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.
Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'
Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.
I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
Everything that fed my energy and imagination is something that I'm disinclined to speak about.
The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.
Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.
My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.
No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.
So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.