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Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
I would love it if my films made a lot of money, and may I say that 'The Yards' is the only one that's lost money.
You know, a lot of people give up their religion, but, oh, my goodness, they go through such agonies. I never did.
I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room.
There is no more discovery. Not since the beginning of this century. There are new gadgets. New important gadgets.
I'm very interested in tennis, but when I try to tell younger players about [Bill] Tilden, they're not interested.
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.
If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.
I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.
I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.
If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.
The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.
Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?
I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
I love movies where the explosions and fireworks are happening inside someone's heart and mind instead of outside.
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.
I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.
In all cases, I will always hire the best person for the job, and it just so happens that many of those are women.
Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.
I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.
I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?
Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.
Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
I want to work. I'd be unsatisfied if I couldn't be pursuing this. But I love my family more. This is really life.
I am searching as Diogenes did with his lantern for all of these wonderful human beings. I haven't found them yet.
I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.
I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.
Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.
There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.
Basically, the big studios and companies distributing your movie just take a big cut of profit for making posters.
If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!
There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.
If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.
It's not because nature is angry, it's rather that we are stupid. We're not doing the right thing with our planet.
God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.
Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.
I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.