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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
When your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear.
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.
I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
I was one of those probably annoying little kids who was always putting on plays with my family.
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.
Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.
People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
[The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it's over.
I do commit really, really passionately. It's why I only work every five years. It's exhausting.
It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.
I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.
To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.
When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
The reason I make more films is that I work all the time without taking a break, and I enjoy it.
Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.
I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.
I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.
Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.
After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.
Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.