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It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
I was not interested by cinema when I was young.
'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.
I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.
When people direct insults at me, I can take it.
'Once Upon a Time in the West' is a great movie.
Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing.
I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
Being a little naive can work to your advantage.
I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
One must confront vague ideas with clear images.
A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
At the cinema, we do not think - we are thought.
It's important in any project to remain focused.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
Science fiction is something I never understood.
The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
I don't think you can ever please all audiences.
It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
If it were all in the script, why make the film?
Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.
I've always seen myself as a populist filmmaker.
I guess different brains work in different ways.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.
If you work at love, you will find love at work.
I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker.
I like people who have clarity about their work.
I wanted 'Alien' to be all about claustrophobia.
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
Good directing is good writing and good casting.
The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.
I still had some honor... I still have some now.
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.