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We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.
If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
Signature film-making seems rather dull to me; it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
I was raised with James Bond. I love James Bond movies. I would love to do a James Bond movie one day. Action is very cinematic.
It's kind of hard to work with Tom Cruise and not be aware that you're working with one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
There are endless anxieties in putting a film together, and it's an enormous relief when you know it's working with an audience.
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
You know, I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them.
There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.
Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.
The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.
Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."
I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn't anything like my 'Dawn Of The Dead.'
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.
I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.
I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.
I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.
My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.
In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.