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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.
Im at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. Ive got my dogs as surrogates, but Im ready for kids.
When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.
I like getting up early, but I haven't got a routine - mainly because I never have a clear idea of what day of the week it is.
Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes.
A French critic referred to me as a gay pessimist, with gay used in its older sense, and talked of Cocteau in the same breath.
I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.
If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.
Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
A man is not capable of giving the way a woman gives. She is stronger. When a woman sacrifices, it lends her grace and beauty.
I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.
My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].
I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.
The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to permeate emotionally.
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor.
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore
I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
I wanted to make my sophomore film as different as possible. I didn't want to be pigeonholed. I didn't want to be identifiable.
I am so disappointed in Apple. I don't even use an iPhone anymore. Their marketing sucks. It's embarrassing. It's just garbage.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.
Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.
I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."
I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.
Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.