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We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging.
If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
My brother Van got the computer first and showed me what it was like to edit video. I definitely credit Van with turning me onto filmmaking.
If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.
The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.
Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.
We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.
I realised that I enjoyed direction while making 'DCH.' The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
The hardest thing when you're making a zombie movie is, 'How am I going to kill these zombies? I need a clever way to knock these guys off.'
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.
I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.
I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.
Most of my films are set in an upper-middle-class world of well-off people who may have all kinds of emotional problems, but they live well.
The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"
Bryan [Cranston] created something completely unique, that was earned by its authenticity. That's what gave us the license to push it a bit.
Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.
I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.
If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.
My main residence is Baltimore. I have an apartment in New York, one in San Francisco, and I live in a rental in Provincetown in the summer.
I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always want people to see my movies.
I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.
You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.
Invest your time, spend less of it, cause you simply can't afford it. Once spent, this time have you, gone will it be, somewhere in history.
The harder we push forward into the unknown the more it intensifies the reflection of humanity. That's what I really love about 'Star Trek.'
One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
Genre mechanics are really tricky because if you pay too much attention to the idea of rules of genre, it becomes pretty stale, pretty fast.
The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.
As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.
A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
Even if I make fun of him, I try to portray him as a human being. Sometimes because he's the great Jean-Luc Godard, we see him as a concept.
It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.