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I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
Spirit of immersion and curiosity and awe and participation is something which Timothy Treadwell and I have in common.
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.
I have seen lampoons of my work. And I have really enjoyed them. But I would never do another version of The Exorcist.
It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'
Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.
One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.
If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.
I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.
For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.
When you can come across a piece of material that's totally original and fun and completely satisfying, you jump on it.
Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
Terry Gilliam, he's a really interesting and amazing film maker, and when he gets it right, it's really powerful stuff.
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.
You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.
Just because I'm showing somebody being disemboweled doesn't mean that I have to get heavy and put a message behind it.
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.
You cannot dictate what people find funny, what people find attractive, or what people find scary. There is not a norm.
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.
I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap.
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.
William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.