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Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.
Actually, even our virility depends on the gaze and the control of women. Without women, we cannot do anything. I think it's a good thing.
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
I think it's important that filmmakers look at the technology and figure out how to make the theatrical experience a little more exciting.
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks.
I edit as I write and shoot. Any extra line, any pause that I know will get chopped on the editing table is done away with then and there.
A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
I don't think every movie should be in 3D. I hope the Coen brothers don't do their next movie in 3D. I don't think they have any plans to.
If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.
If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.
Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.
I think being someone in love is so hard to define, so temporary, because retrospectively we often deny the state in which we were in love.
It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.
There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.
I'd seen too many shrines in South Central and thought it was worth asking where the first bullet came from that started all this violence.
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.
My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.
When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.
I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'
There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.