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I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.
I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that.
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.
I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."
I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.
Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.
'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.
When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.
Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.
That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite.
I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
When Yeats said the center cannot hold, he was talking for himself, but it was true for the rest of us as well.
In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.
In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.
America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country, after the election of Donald Trump.
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.
Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.
I love comedies and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. ‘The Other Guys’ was not lazy.
You want to make movies about extraordinary people, but those extraordinary people have to have a huge journey.
We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.
It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.
My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?
The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.
What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.
We have to change the educational curricula and put a lot more emphasis on how important seeing and looking is.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.