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One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.
I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.
I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.
All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.
Every time I read it, I realised 'Bajirao Mastani' must be made. It's such a powerful screenplay.
'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.
I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?
If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
When beautiful movie stars allow themselves to look terrible, people think they're really acting.
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.
Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.
Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.
With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.
Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.
Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.
It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.
When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
There's nothing I find more lazy than unmotivated camerawork just to make things look interesting.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring.
Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.
I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.
I swing with a lot of torque from non-fiction to fiction, and I really like that place in between.
I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.
We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.
My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.