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Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.
Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make films.
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.
Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.
Love is dead; let lovers' eyes, Locked in endless dreams, The extremes of all extremes, Ope no more, for now Love dies.
I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
I don't want to be the Asian filmmaker; I just want to be a filmmaker. I want to be Spielberg. I want to be Tim Burton.
I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.
Studio films are driven by marketing. The currency is literally money. But in the indie world, the currency is passion.
Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.
Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.
I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book.
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
If you're not out there taking some risks, if you're just coasting along with your wins, then you're not really trying.
To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.
I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'
Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.
I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."
If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'
Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.
I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.
Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.
I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.
I like the idea of a character that you wanna like even though you know he's making immoral choices throughout the film.
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.