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The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.
The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.
It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.
Its a bit cloudy in London but people are already drinking out on the streets- God Bless the pubs.
If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
When I start creating a villain, I start liking the villain and so the villain is not really evil.
If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.
I am partisan to some extent on the Democratic side, but I consider myself more of an independent.
The projector will soon disappear. The camera, not really. OK, it depends... it depends on change.
People think of fortune cookies as being Chinese, but in essence, they are fundamentally American.
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.
I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.
I tried heroin. I shot up in high school, but I just thought it was so dreary: puking and nodding.
I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.
In the 1960s, if you could save $500, you had enough to move to another city and start a new life.
We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are.
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.
But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.
I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.
I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers.
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.
It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.
I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.
I don't think boldness should be associated with showing off skin. It's not the basis of boldness.
If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.
When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control.