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I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.
Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for Easy Street.
I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.
When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking.
Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.
I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
I feel with 'Don 2' I got an opportunity to do a very good action with the kind of pace that I would like an action film to have.
'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.
After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.
There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.
I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.
If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.
I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.
I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!
I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.