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Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.
At the end of the day, it's still a show about guys who ride extremely fast motorcycles for a living.
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.
One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.
I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.
I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.
I used to lie a lot as a child, which I now regret. I think it is much easier just to tell the truth.
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.
My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.
I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.
Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.
It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.
When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
I like action movies, and I prefer to watch a bad Hong Kong action movie to just about anything else.
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.
How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.
Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.
What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.
Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.
I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.
After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.
I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.
It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.