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I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.
I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.
People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.
Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
When I was young, there were bars called the 'Hungry Hole,' and in those same neighbourhoods are now gay people pushing baby carriages.
We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.
As a filmmaker, I've had films that over-achieved and I've had films that under-achieved. You always go in trying to do your very best.
I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.
As 'Warrior' comes together, I can't help but feel the pride of correcting a wrong and helping bring Bruce Lee's dream project to life.
Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the ring, you are who you are.
Although I was really interested in physics, I think I wanted to do it because I thought it was really hard. I did theoretical physics.
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
I always say I thought I was making this exciting action movie but I actually always end up making character studies. Every single one.
It's a real skill to take a piece of literature and make it in cinema. It's quite a different form, and I think I have to respect that.
When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
We're premiering 'The Neon Demon' in Cannes, which is the representation of 'The Neon Demon,' which is all about glamour and vulgarity.
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.
The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.
There`s only one list that`s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d`Or. It`s the list of directors who didn`t.
I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.
A lot of medical problems are solved if doctors are nice to patients. If you can make them think positive, you may not need medication.
I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.
A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me to get to 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.
I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.
Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.
When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.