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I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.
If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.
I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them
If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.
My normal way of filming something is, like, one camera, very well planned out, knowing exactly how we're going to get each shot.
The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.
I'm at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I've got my dogs as surrogates, but I'm ready for kids.
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.
Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.
When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.
To me, the darkest film ever made and the film, to me, that's the darkest picture in the human humanity's soul is 'Pretty Woman.'
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.
To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up.
I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.
Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.
I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you’ll never see me there. I’m never at parties.
I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties.
People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.
Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.
For Daredevil I think Sam Wortington could be very great and intense for this character. For the vilain it's depênd of the story.
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.
I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
I box every day. I have a gym built wherever I go, so I still got my gym. Every day, I try to get in there and work out the mitts.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.