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When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
Success can create amazing opportunities but it can also bring a set of confines which make your decisions a little murkier.
I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
The first thing I do after I wake up is switch on the music player and the last thing I do before going to sleep is stop it.
I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
My philosophy is that one shall not resort to violence unless one is resolved to become the subject of violence at any time.
I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.
When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.
It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.
[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
My grandmothers apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage
Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.
If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?
Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.
Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, it was going to my mother.
Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.
I'm very happy where 3-D is going, which is that it's becoming a choice - and thankfully, most people are still choosing 2-D.
People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
When I read Daniel Woodrell's novel 'Winter's Bone,' I was drawn to the characters, the setting, and the sound of the dialog.
A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.
A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'
When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
With 'The Big Lebowski,' we were really consciously thinking about doing a Raymond Chandler story, as much as it's about L.A.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.