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I have no interest in cars. I have a plain, used Buick. I could run over 10 people, and you wouldn't be able to describe my car.
Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land.
When I go on set, it's very important, the lenses I choose, what I choose to frame or not frame and that's how I make my movies.
I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
I feel like, generally, the golden eras of cinema seem to be in moments of incredible political turmoil and strife and struggle.
'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.
Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.
There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'
I tried for about two semesters in a preparatory seminary. But I was about 15 and didn't fully understand what a vocation means.
Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
I made a movie in Morocco. I made a movie in Brazil. I've made commercials all over the world. Every set looks like another set.
I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.
I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it - and I do - and subtle - beige, pink, white, tan, taup.
All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.
I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.
I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.
I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.
Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.
I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire
I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.
Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!