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I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.
I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.
My opinion of a good zombie walk is to loll your head as if it's a little too heavy and the muscles have begun to atrophy.
I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.
What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
The trail of "secret migration" was a shock to me. I knew a little about the difficulties, just bits of news in the media.
It's hard not to think of Jack Ford when you're making a Western. Hard not to think of him when you're making any picture.
My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.
In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.
We always want to let people leave with some sort of like, "Great, I want to see more." Not, "Oh my God, that's still on?"
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.
I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.
When I was finishing 'Now You See Me 2,' I remember thinking about exploring the Asian-American identity side of my brain.
When you're the only Asian in the room, the last thing you want to do is to point out you're Asian. And be the Asian dude.
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.
I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists [in Valerian] who participated at every level.
I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.
I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.
Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.
I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read.
I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.
Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.
Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.
I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.
I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.
I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.
It's interesting - the things you remember about Chariots of Fire is the slow running on the beach and the Vangelis music.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!
If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it.
On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.
I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.
Once a film is selected at Cannes, the crossover becomes very easy, thanks to the prestige and dignity it gains at Cannes.
Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!
I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.
I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.