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If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.
It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.
I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards.
3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.
It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.
Water is a cure-all. Water is everything. You can't get better without drinking lots of water, and you can't drink water unless it's clean.
I left 'Fast and Furious' because I just felt like, at a certain point, after number six, there wasn't another story that I wanted to tell.
And he doesn't really - it's never awkward when you're talking to Tom Hanks. I've never seen him have an awkward conversation with anybody.
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.
That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York.
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
L.A. films are hard to define compared to New York films because New York films are their own subgenre, in a way. L.A. is more transparent.
You can start making films as a child. It's become easier to find your groove as a filmmaker, and I'm extremely interested in those voices.
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.
Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and carries through to today.
Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.
Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing at home, evil becomes normal.
3-D is a truly exciting possibility. Whether that's going to be something that sustains our interest, I'm not certain, but I think it will.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.
I keep thinking I'm going to miss it back in Los Angeles. But I don't. The only thing I miss is driving out in the desert in the Southwest.
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events in the background.
Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.
I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.
Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.
I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.