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I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.
Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.
I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.
There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.
I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.
Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.
If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.
Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.
I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.
The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.
For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?
We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.
I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.
If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things that get on their nerves.
People always ask me what I'm doing on the subway, but I love it! Sometimes I like to ride in the front car and look out the window at the rats.
Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.
The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.
For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.
I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.
The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.
I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.
When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.
You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in five minutes, you get a great answer.
I like to really know what every scene is about, what the text is, what the subtext is. Then I figure out how to express that when I'm shooting.
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.
Where you're running out of time, you have these brainwave moments. It's allowing the space to have them, even in an incredibly tight situation.
When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.
I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.
I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people.
'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
Look what I know about directing; is it goes beyond gender. You might see some qualities that are inherently female in the great male directors.
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.