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Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
I'm the kind of person who is always thinking, 'What if we had to spend the rest of our lives in a particular place?'
I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!
A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.
I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
I loved Keaton. In fact, when I made the chase sequence in 'What's Up, Doc,' I said, 'This is a Buster Keaton chase.'
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?
The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
I am distressed when I see news channels saying 'Devdas' has let down the country by not getting an Oscar nomination.
I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.
If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.
I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.
Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.
I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.
You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.
I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.
I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.
You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.
Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.