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Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
When you're shooting concert scenes in films, we try to bring in, where appropriate, as much of a sense of live performance as possible.
SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
As a director, we work ridiculously hard on every detail, and we do everything to the billionth degree, and mostly people notice nothing.
I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.
As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.
The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.
There's something so great when you're watching a movie when you slowly get to know somebody more, because it's like a real relationship.
I'm really attracted to anti-heroes, and I'm a little bit of a troublemaker myself, and a little bit of a rule-breaker, and I like spies.
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.
I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.
The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
I've always wanted to do non-comedies. I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence.
My only vice is 'Keeping up With The Kardashians.' I can't really explain what it is that fascinates me so much, but it just sucks me in.
I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.
I'm not a website guy, although I'm not a Luddite, either. I have looked at a computer, but I don't go to PopSugar and Goop and all that.
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.
I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.