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I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.
Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.
My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.
I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.
I can't really envision a time when I'm not shooting something.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films.
I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.
I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.
The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.
Being British, you see a lot of Australian movies and TV shows.
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.
Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'
Any film I make, my intention is always to make people like it.
With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.
If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.
We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.
I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.
It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.
I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.
The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.
If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.