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I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.
I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.
I think everyone has experienced those boring arguments about whose turn it is to do the dishes.
If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.
If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.
We live in America, one of the good things what we have with all the people is we have dialogue.
As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
Roger Ebert was the last mammoth alive who was holding the flag for real movies and moviemakers.
I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.
Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.
There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.
Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'
What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.
Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.
I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
I'd want to marry Cate Blanchett, date Kate Bosworth, and spend the weekend with Elisha Cuthbert.
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
I'm definitely sensitive to the idea of exploitation. You don't want to glamorize certain things.
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.
It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
I have a rebellious nature, and being told no is almost the surest way to get me to do something.
I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'
I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.
Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.
The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.
Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.