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I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
If you look at my body of work, which is not very big, really, it took an evolutionary leap with 'The Zookeeper's Wife'.
I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.
I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.
The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.
Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
I started acting in 'The Sopranos' around 1999 and 2000. I did that for six years. That was quite a job, and I loved it.
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.
The longest break I have taken in my life was 14 days. On the 15th day, I started getting impatient to start work again.
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.
Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
Actually, when I did "10,000 B.C.," in the middle of production, I wanted to quit my job, because everything went wrong.
Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.
I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.
I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.
I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.
We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances.
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list of questions.
In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.
I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'
I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.
I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.
I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.