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From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.
I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.
I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.
Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.
I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.
Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.
I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.
The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eating a carrot.
I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.
I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.
I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can't have all of them for myself.
Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.
Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again.
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.
I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.
If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.
Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.
I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history.
I don't look ahead to the future as a vast, endless one. I've begun to feel the calendar pages turning.
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.
At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.
You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.
If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.
If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.
To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.