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It's great to make strong, powerful films, but in terms of people wanting to finance them, it's also very difficult.
I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.
At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.
You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.
'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it.
The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.
When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.
I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.
I've had some bad experiences, but I've also been lucky and I just feel so privileged to be able to even make films.
There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."
You know, I watched the original 'Same Time, Next Year' on DVD about ten times this year, and I cried all ten times.
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.
Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.
I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens.
I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
I'm a very feminine man. I like feminine things. I don't go to strip clubs. I don't drink beer. I don't play sports.
'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of.
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
If every man is supposed to think of sex once every nine minutes, what on earth does he think of in the other eight?
The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.
I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.
It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.
'The Man In High Castle' is one of Dick's most imaginative and captivating works, and certainly one of my favorites.
Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.
It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?'
To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.
I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.
I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor.
I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
With 'Carol,' I was just really looking at and thinking about the love story as a genre, not the domestic melodrama.
We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.
I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you don't get fired.
I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.
I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
I do think that the emotional weight of 'Biutiful' has blinded some viewers to the beauty and complexity of the film.