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I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.
Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
A genuinely humble attitude is one of the greatest skills in business. Because it compels us to LISTEN and LEARN.
I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
I'm a good learner. I can dig in. I knew nothing about mark-to-market accounting when I started the 'Enron' film.
I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"
Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.
After 'Inconvenient Truth,' we hit a tipping point where almost everybody in America cares about the environment.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.
Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it.
Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.
For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.
I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
I want to have the illegitimate child of independent film making and the budget to make it. That's my aspiration.
Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.
The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.
I love the Zucker brothers' films - 'Airplane!,' 'Top Secret' and 'Police Squad!' - are my formative experiences.
Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.
The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.
'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
The only reason I would call the police is if someone is getting aggressed in the street and I'm behind a window.
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
I find it pointless sitting in my house not working, though I like to go on extended vacations from time to time.
Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.