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Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images
If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'
More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.
I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.
Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.
Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.
That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.
The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.
My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.
Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
If you watch 'Fast and Furious 6,' you do see that it's a culmination of something and I think it's the end of a chapter.
I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.
I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.
What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.
I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.
One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.
Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.
Robert DeNiro, who may be the greatest living actor, usually acts in a way which is very stone-faced, like Steve McQueen.
I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is.
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.
He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.
I wrote 'Kshana Kshanam' with the one and only purpose of impressing Sridevi. 'Kshana Kshanam' was my love letter to her.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.