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If people want to talk about anything I do, they can give it any name they want. As long as they're talking about it, I think it's great.
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.
I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.
I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.
People have two sides, and a person first becomes appealing when you discover both of those sides - and worlds work exactly the same way.
I’ve been accused of ‘raping’ the audience in my films, and I admit to that freely — all movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.
I've always been against the idea of dividing films between festival titles and popular movies. I think you can make films that are both.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.
I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place in the universe.
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.
It's a circus life, the movies. It's a lot of travelling, a lot of antisocial hours; there's a lot of it that's about escaping from life.
I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.
Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.
In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.
I'm fascinated by what makes up a self, how one becomes a self, how much is it an answer to others and how much is it an essence of self.
When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.
I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.
There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.
'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.
When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.
I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.
It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.
I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
I like rock music. I also like classical, if you ask me. I'm very adaptable, they say that. But I have certain preference too, be honest.
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.
An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times.
When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.
I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.