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My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.
You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.
I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.
For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.
I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.
I personally prefer projecting digitally. I guess I'm of that generation where I like that clarity.
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.
The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.
I knew I wanted to make a movie that hadn't really existed in a while in terms of being a teenager.
For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.
I hope to continue doing TV, and I think that what I've learned on 'The Strain' will come in handy.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.
I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
The wolves are never meant to be anything other than defending. They're not meant to be aggressors.
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.
I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
My job as a minister is not only to make heaven my home, but to make my home on earth sheer heaven.
I'm extremely proud to be part of the 'Fast' franchise, it is an experience I will always treasure.
I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.
I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.
I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'
It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.
Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"
Kevin' is a psychological horror film. It uses genre elements, so hopefully it's exciting to watch.
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?
I prefer people who don't get caught, and if they do get caught, I prefer people who don't give in.
I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies
I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.