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I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.
Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.
I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way.
You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.
The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.
The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.
I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.
The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
I just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.
My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.
When you have films like 'Bourne' that succeed, not only does it beget sequels, but it begets people taking chances.
I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.
You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.
One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.
My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
Zombies are my ticket to ride! It's how I get a deal! I don't care what they are. I don't care where they came from.
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.
DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have.
Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.
The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.
I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.
I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like 'Breaking Bad' did. Like 'The Wire' did. Like 'Homeland' did.
First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.