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There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.
I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.
The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
When I was making 'Bourne Identity,' I wasn't making a dumb action movie like they were expecting it to be.
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
I love my work, but I don't like being in the spotlight. I was never going to be an actor, that's for sure.
I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
Work does affect my personal life, as it consumes most of my time. It takes away a lot from my family time.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.
Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
I'm satisfied to have an ordinary success and an ordinary life and an ordinary income. Later, I don't know.
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.
Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.
I remember distinctly not seeing myself. I didn't see myself in black culture, white culture, mass culture.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.
When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.
It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.
I'm rather secular. I'm basically Jewish. But I think I'm Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.