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I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.
America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.
Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.
When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.
I used to date Olivia Munn... But when she was 'Lisa,' that was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.
We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.
I love to travel, anywhere in the world. Wherever it is... India... Tibet... wherever. I'll go anywhere.
Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world.
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
The nation that leads in renewable energy will be the nation that leads the world 10, 20 years from now.
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.
I have two sons, and at 16, they were into Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and a lot of British rock.
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.
I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.
It's always good to have a limit because it forces you to think about all the ways to get what you want.
Shonda Rhimes has figured it out, of getting multiracial casts on television and appealing to everybody.
I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.
The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.
All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.