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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.
It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
VR is so immersive, and when it works, it draws you into the story in a way that is truly unique and powerful.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.
I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.
Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.
From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.
Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.
In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.
The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.
When you're shooting super-low-budget - we had 20 days to shoot 'Diary,' and a little over $2 - time is money.
I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
I saw a martyr in the Wolf Man, who is the very moving essence of outsiderness, with which I identified fully.
I love the entire 'Constantine' mythology, the 'Dead Man' mythology, the Alex Holland 'Swamp Thing' mythology.
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.
With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!
My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.
For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.
People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.
Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you... .
If you cast an all-white movie and it doesn't do well, no one will say it's because you had an all-white cast.
Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step into the ring.
America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.
For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.
Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.
You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.
When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.
The movies like "Star Wars," for example or "Lord Of The Rings," they work because it's a a mix of everything.
Film school was frustrating for me at first but I met some cool people like Lucia Zucchetti - she was amazing.
I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.