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If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.
I don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don’t want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.
I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.
The story of 'Prometheus' is the idea that if you're given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it, and do not think you can compete.
You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.
When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.
The thing that makes love stories work, in my opinion, in movies and novels and country & western songs, is the feeling of longing.
If you believe in God, that's a belief. If you are an atheist, it's a belief too, because you cannot prove that God does not exist.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.
I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.
When you live in a city, as I do, where violence is really in the streets, and people die every day, there's nothing funny about it.
I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
Tom Hooper had done 'John Adams,' and David Lynch did 'Twin Peaks.' I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.
Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.
Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?
I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house.
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
'Hanna' was nice. It was Saoirse Ronan's idea. Usually, the director casts the actor, but in this case, the actor cast the director.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.
I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.
When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.
I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life. You should have been, or something's the matter with you.
As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.
I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays.
I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.
I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.
I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.
It would be false if I claim that the Congress has in the past not let down its ideology, especially pertaining to Muslim community.
I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.