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Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.
I don't storyboard like some. I mean, all directors are different. I plan meticulously - really meticulously.
'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.
Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.
All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.
'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.
Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.
Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.
If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light.
I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.
Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
I think Jenny Beavan is a masterful costume designer and very deserving of the Oscar for 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'
I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.
If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, "Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long.".
Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don't give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi's back seat.
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.
I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job.
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set.
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.