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There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.
It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.
There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
It's always tempting to cast someone you enjoy being with. You've got to hang out with these people for a number of months.
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.
I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.
Basically, I'm an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that's high-spirited horror, and I'll be there giggling.
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
I've never made any choice or done anything that wasn't what I think it should be. I've never compromised, but I do listen.
Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.
In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.
Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.