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A lot of us as adults haven't learned how to cope with our feelings, deal with our anger or work through the pain of our childhoods.
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.
I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?
I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.
Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.
I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.
People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.
When you're making a film, you have to make most of your decisions on the run, and there is a tendency to always shoot from the hip.
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.
You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
I came out of a sort of experimental background, and I didn't ever really expect - or even desire - a career as a feature filmmaker.
You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.
I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.
I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it!
The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?
Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.
I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
Cannes or any other major festival is basically an animal in its own nature, creating very specific perceptions of films in a moment.
From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.
Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent.
The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.
'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script.
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.