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When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
The maniacal lunatics in control of our society know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at manipulation.
There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'
I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.
I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."
I asked [Donald Trump] if he had any advice for Charles Foster Kane and he said, "Yeah, get yourself a different woman."
If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.
A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.
I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.
I love monsters the way people worship holy images. To me, they really connect in a very fundamental way to my identity.
A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.
I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.
For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.
When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?
As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.
We came over when I was 8 from Taiwan. That was my life: going to school, working at the restaurant, playing basketball.
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.
A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.
It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.
What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.
We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.
We got together as a group to come up with the idea for 'Toy Story 3' in the same cabin where we dreamed up 'Toy Story.'
Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.
I was at film school when I made 'Small Debts' and I was a cinematographer, so I didn't actually study to be a director.
They're each on separate coasts but I think that the deep Maine woods shares some similarities to the Pacific Northwest.
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it's a dream for me.
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.