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I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.
It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.
Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.
Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.
I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other.
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.
I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason.
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.
You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.
For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).
My sister's asthmatic. In the middle of an asthma attack she got an obscene phone call. The guy said, "Did I call you or did you call me?"
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.
The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.
I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue.
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.
I would like to get jobs doing other things that aren't necessarily always with my husband. I'd like to show range - and kiss another guy.
I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.
People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.
I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.
I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.
That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.
I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.