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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear.
Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies
The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.
I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.
I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!
Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.
I still think Ned Beatty should've played Don Corleone.
I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.
I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.
Discover how little you know about the people you know.
Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.
Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots.
The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.
The essence of all health begins through joyful living.
The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.
I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.
You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
I think cinema is taken a bit more seriously in France.
Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.
I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Just being in love with making films makes me carry on.
The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.
I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime.
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.
Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.
Humility is not a trait I often associate with America.
If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.
I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.
I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.
Don't pretend to know me when I don't even know myself.
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.