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The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at.
One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.
Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.
There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.
I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
I grew up, from ages 8 to 18, watching reruns of 'Star Trek' with my dad and my mom when they got home from work.
I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.
I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
We having nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and maybe getting mugged by someone wearing a "No Fear" t-shirt.
Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.
I love the discipline of shooting film, because you don't cover everything, and I'm glad that I learned that way.
Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"
Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.
I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.
Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.
You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that.
I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.
And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.
Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.
With every film I've made, 'Whale Rider' included, I've had a vision that was far bigger than the budget allowed.
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.
I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.
Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.
Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.
The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.
I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.