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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.
I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?
If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.
'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.
We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.
I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.
If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.
People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.
When we were first creating the look of 'Kung Fu Panda,' we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful tradition and culture of China.
If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.
I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.
The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.
You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.
"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.
Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.
I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.
Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.
My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.
Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.
It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.
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.
It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day.
I don't really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to 'X Factor' - I like trash and nature programmes.
The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.
You'll hear people say now, 'Oh, I don't want to see something in 3-D. That's wrong, because what they've seen is 3-D done poorly.
I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor.