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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
There's 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.
I'm not someone that loves dialogue - I am someone that loves movement. Action, if it's well done, can be very poetic and meaningful.
I've got a short attention span, so it makes sense that I like movies because, for the most part, they immerse you in lots of action.
I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.
I used to drink a lot of lager when I was younger, but I'm more of a wine drinker now, I guess. I feel daunted looking at full pints.
All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
I used to say that interviewing others was perhaps the way I could stop talking and start listening. It's a kind of enforced silence.
To me 'Qurbani' was a good action film - it was fast, had one plot, and moved along at a pace, and it didn't really divert attention.
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.
Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.
The reason there's a 'Hellboy 2' is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it's because the numbers made sense.
I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.
A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.
For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.
How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.
In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.
To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.
I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of their lives because of sudden changes.
The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.
I want 'Like Brothers' to answer young kids who ask, 'How could I possibly become a filmmaker?' This book will step that out for you.
I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!
That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.
Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"
I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.
In the case of 'The Lovely Bones,' I felt that it was subject matter not often dealt with in film, and with a tone that is also rare.
When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.
I don't think I take risks. People think I do, but I don't. In fact, I think conventional-formula filmmakers take more risks than me.
I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.
Unlike the twisters he famously chased in the movies, Bill Paxton was the kind of force of nature you ran toward and never away from.