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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.
I will never do Pulp [Fiction] 2 but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
Films like 'Satya,' 'Company' needed a pan-Indian audience. The affinity for Hindi film and subjects was there.
So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.
Your karma should be good, and everything else will follow. Your good karma will always win over your bad luck.
I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.
It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .
As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?
It's pure joy to see some people who've never had the chance to live their dream, come on stage, and let loose.
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.
My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.
But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.
So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions.
I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.'
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
Appreciate good coffee when it's available, but drink whatever they have on set and always say thank you for it.
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
We just started filming 'Stray Dog' really close to the finishing of 'Winter's Bone,' down in Southern Missouri.
When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.
It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.
I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.
When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.
Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."
As the director, you are the organiser who has to have all the answers. You are the person with maximum clarity.
There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.
Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.
The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.