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I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.
I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
You always want to unmask the person and find out who they are - that feeling of wanting what you can't have.
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
I was really excited to try 3D and play with it really, again, experiment formally with that extra dimension.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
I don't like to eat when I watch films because it distracts me. Anything crunchy or in a wrapper is terrible.
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.
I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.
As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.
If I make a film like 'Better Luck Tomorrow' or 'Finishing the Game,' I'll protect it with everything I have.
I love films where even if you don't like the film, it doesn't matter. It's about respecting a point of view.
I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.
Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.
I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.
I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.
I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.
I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.