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... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.
If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go.
At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.
I have a commitment to real worlds on screen. I like working in real communities. I like telling real stories.
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.
Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.
I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.
I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.
Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.
At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops.
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.
Many people ask me why I chose to remake 'Devdas.' I wanted to make a film that celebrated grandeur and grace.
I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.
You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.
Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.
It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.
I have never been to Australia, because the flight terrifies me, but I think I would like to go there one day.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't.
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.
It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.
I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.
I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.
I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.
In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.