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I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.
A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don't dub Stan Lee's work that way.
I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.
Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.
Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.
I always have considered Michael Keaton to be a phenomenal actor because he navigates drama and comedy.
Millions of Mexicans leave their kids in order to take care of other kids. That's a very painful thing.
It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.
Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.
She who seeks shall find, find all to well, and end up clouding her vision with her own preconceptions.
You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.
What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.
The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.
I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.
When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.
When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.
I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.
I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.
I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.
Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest.
I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.