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We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.
It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.
As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
I don't think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.
All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.
I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.
I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.
The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.
We had to get past the mechanical film age to be able to explore other things, but it will be interesting.
L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it or not at all.
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
I faced failure with my first film, 'Khamoshi.' All of us have our highs and lows, except Lata Mangeshkar.
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.
That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.
GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
People in movies and TV seem to be completely dumb to what's going on in the real world and relationships.
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
As long as I take the responsibility of the choice, I have to make the choice that is as right as possible.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.