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To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.
I think The Room is something magnetic, a certain magnetism in The Room that is related to human behavior, and that's why people relate to it.
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.
If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.
Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.
It would be hard to go to your neighbor and say the things people say on the Internet without getting punched out or having your tires slashed.
I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.
The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
I've liked being Jewish in America - there's a secular version of Jewishness there that's more about bagels and jokes than going to synagogues.
I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.
Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing
There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated, to become saints. God alienates people from themselves.
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.
The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.
In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.
I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.
For 'Rock On,' we not only acted as rock musicians; we also went into the studio to record songs and jammed live to get the concert feel right.
My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.
In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.
The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.
The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.
Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.
On airplanes, strangers confide in me the most deepest, darkest secrets. And I think they think I'll understand. And I generally do understand.
You sometimes get the sense that when people make sequels, they get conservative. If something worked, they do it over and over and over again.
There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.
Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.
I find it difficult to write with reference to the most memorable moments in film, when for me the best moments in films are truly irreducible.
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.