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I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
When it comes to governments and corporations, we should demand that less is secret. That's where corruption flowers.
Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.
A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.
When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window.
Artistic mediums go through phases where progress happens really rapidly, and then other moments where it slows down.
In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any meaning.
'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age.
It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast
Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.
If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.
We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.
I truly try to create beauty and reflection and all of that as conscientiously and judiciously and minutely as I can.
If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.
I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''
When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.
It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows?
The only time I had a normal boyfriend was during the time of AIDS, so maybe that saved me. It's certainly not karma.
I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.
A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.
I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.
Without 'Annapolis,' I wouldn't have gotten 'Tokyo Drift' - I wouldn't be here today. And, so, it's part of who I am.
What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance
I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.