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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.
The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.
You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.
If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.
It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.
The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.
When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.
It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.
Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.
People are more likely to help other people who look exactly like them. They will hang out at the bar and on the golf course with them.
As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.
The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.
I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture.
I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.
It is so sad how hatred is a seed we planted in the hearts of kids. We are going to be working for years and years to try and fix this.
I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.
Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.
'Godfather' was very classical, the way it was shot, the style, the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.
If you look to the few films that have been really successful, 'Insidious,' 'Paranormal Activity,' it's all basically the old monsters.
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.
Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.
I wish I was sort of someone like Woody Allen who can stage everything in one long master shot, no coverage; just, you know, that's it.