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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.
Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It's shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that.
I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.
Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
It delights me to find something that kids are doing that surprises me that seems new. That's the best feeling you can have.
I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.
I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.
My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.
We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.
You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.
People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
It's important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good.
Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.
I hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an easy path.
It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.
It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.
The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.
You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'
'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.
I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go out, I'm going out with a bang.
A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.
Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.
One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.
The people you live with at college, those first roommates often are people you're still friends with the rest of your life.
I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.