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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
With the dramatic canvas, I found you could still operate with the documentarist's observational eye.
I think one of the joys of disaster movies is not knowing who's going to live and who's going to die.
There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film,and all they write about is 48 frames.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it`s 3% good, 97% stupid.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.
If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
Deepika asked questions like a diligent student. She talks little and saves all she has for the shot.
I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.
You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.
I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.
When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.
I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in.
I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.
If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body
I liked Batman because he was more grounded. I never liked Superman much or Captain Marvel or Shazam.
Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
What are you going to do now? I just wrapped a remake of The Poseidon Adventure .. Lady in the Water.
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.
Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.
And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.
John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.
Beautifully-acted and precisely observed, ILO ILO is an amazing debut, full of heart and intelligence.
I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.
I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.
I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)
I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.