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A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.
One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
The power of music is still with me, every day. It's one of the most inspiring things available in the world.
I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.
I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.
The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.
The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.
I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
What attracted me to 'Eclipse' was that it is a great story and a tremendous challenge for me as a filmmaker.
Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.
At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.
It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.
I'm not from a lower social level, but I think I relate more to lower levels then to people who've got money.
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.
People called 28 Days and 28 Weeks zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
I'm more alarmed by people reacting violently to the violence in my films than I am by the violence in films.
Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.
I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.
In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.
I want us to have it all, love and career. It's a struggle sometime to achieve that, but I love the struggle.
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.