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If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language.
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'
The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.
And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.
Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.
We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.
I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.
I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.
Sometimes the scene just comes together, and other times, we have to build the scene from scratch, just using different takes.
We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Never invest so much in anyone romantically that you lose your head. The Buddha of casual sex, I remain detached at all costs.
Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.
I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
I believe that we will elevate and differentiate the discourse of cinema the more we discuss image creation in specific terms.
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.
Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible.
I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.
There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.
When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.
As bad as some movies can be, good movies are also possible, sometimes through the very heinous corporations we love to trash.
We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.
I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.
Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
There is an anatomical dysfunction in today's Lebanon, and we have been stuck in a socio-political vicious circle for decades.
Being a good actor is incredibly difficult. But the amount of responsibility is so much less on your shoulders than directing.
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.