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I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.
As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.
My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.
I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.
When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.
We're in three living groups, 'cause even after the world's ended some assholes still can't get along.
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'
Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.
I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.
Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.
I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.
I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.
I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.
When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.
I guess I always view movies as, in their best form, connecting us more to each other and to humanity.
It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.
You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.
I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.
I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.
We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.
I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.
I'm lucky in a lot of ways. And in my family life, my home life, is where I count myself the luckiest.
A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.
I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.
I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.
I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.