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I like to stay within the zone of one character. It would disturb me to break away and go into an entirely different territory.
'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.
After 'Land,' I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for 'Diary of the Dead.'
Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.
You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema.
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.
On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving
The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].
Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.
So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.
Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.
I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.
I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.
I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.
'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.
The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.
I love to go to the airports and just put on, like, dark glasses, so nobody can tell I'm staring at them, and just draw people.
I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn't a dream. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.
I can lock myself for months in the editing suite with no noise or distractions. It's fascinating to see the film taking shape.
We all have to embrace the idea not to be worried about there being other women in the room. Gay men work with such solidarity.
No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.
A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.
Nobody can seem more politicised and glamorous than the baby-boomers. But their kids are surprisingly robust and late bloomers.
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.