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I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
We support each other in the Coppola family. We love the idea of everyone getting his place in the sun.
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.
I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
The hardest thing on 'Palo Alto' was letting go because I kept working on it, trying to make it better.
To a certain extent, I like fashion, but sometimes I just want to be comfortable and don't really care.
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
When the monster has a dimension that allows you to humanize it, that's the route I usually want to go.
I would much rather see somebody bring something new to a genre than produce something that seems safe.
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.
I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.
Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.
I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.
I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
Yeah, I know I should be fighting for gay rights, but who wants to join the army or get married anyway?
I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.
A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.
I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.
Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.
I grew up in the Midwest. I understand a sense of the small-town mentality, small-town social politics.
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.
The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.
I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know?
Campaigning for Congress is an issue of conviction, and there is no element of any personal gain in it.
When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.
The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quickly.
There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.