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You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.
You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.
I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.
Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot.
I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.
I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.
No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.
I feel some people are cynical by nature. You show them anything, they only see the problems and negatives.
Following the West is not surrendering. Following the West, the best of the West, is following originality.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me.” -Maddy
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.
I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode.
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.
And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.
Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.
Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!
Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.