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When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
Pompeii is taught at schools in England, and, for a young boy, the combination of the Roman Empire and a volcano was irresistible.
I certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.
We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.
You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.
I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.
You have to let go of the control and allow things to develop. You need to have a flexible attitude, especially working with kids.
It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.
I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.
This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
Films are pushing envelopes in terms of what is horrific, but also on other areas: in video games, in comic books and outside life.
Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.
If you go to a restaurant with Tom Cruise, it's like walking in with Santa Claus. Everybody is in a better mood because he's there.
Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.
I basically like a bit more control. Even in my personal life, I need things to be done on time. If it's not done, I get impatient.
What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'