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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.
When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?
In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.
After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.
Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesn't have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.
I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.
It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.
Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.
I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'
I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.
I've really pushed the limits of what you can get away with at big studios, and I've been extremely well-supported.
The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.
Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.
I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.
I sit around listening to classical music. I don't play video games. I love to go to dinner, go on picnics, travel.
For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.
I liked the '28 Days Later' films, but they're not zombies; they're not dead. They're not using it in the same way.
The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.
Most people think of Las Vegas, and they think of extravagance. But it's really a mix between fantasy and laziness.
In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.
Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.
Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.
One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.
I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.
I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.
What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.
How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.