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I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.
I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.
I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.
When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.
Is Michael Moore an honest documentarian? Honestly? I don't think he is... The real discussion gets left behind the entertainment value.
The main thing people took from 'Night of the Living Dead' was that it was a racial statement movie, and that was completely unintended.
You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.
Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.
To me, racist jokes are not funny. I am politically correct, in a weird way. I like to push the boundaries that are politically correct.
Fame is protection if you go to a scary place. Fame is fun. A lot of people don't say anything and you don't know they know who you are.
Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.
For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.
As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.
We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?
I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.
Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain by now. What a better world it would be if other people were doing things with Mickey Mouse!
Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.
We want the diversity of the world that is around us represented both in front of and behind the camera, and on our screens as a result.
I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.
The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.
I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.
Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.
As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.
Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.
Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.
The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind the project.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.