Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
As a teenager, I was really interested in drama and art. I did painting and drawing. I did some acting and loved theater.
I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.
I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them.
Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.
I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.
I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you could find.
This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.
I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.
My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better.
It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.
Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.
I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.
I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.
Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.
I was a sci-fi addict when I was a kid and a teenager. Novels, graphic novels, movies, it was my way to deal with reality.
I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'
My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
I wish I'd got my driving license at 18, not 22. I also wish I had graduated earlier, even though I didn't finish college.
The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.