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I understand Sean Penn. He has every right to look for El Chapo.
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.
Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...
There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.
The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
I've certainly never been dying to go to England my entire life.
If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows.
You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.
I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.
I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.
I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.
If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.
Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories.
I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others
I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.
When there's 100 people around you can't really forget yourself.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
I had written 'Cafe de Flore' with 'Stairway to Heaven' in mind.
I like to draw, and my drawings are what yell and scream for me.
That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.
Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.
The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.
I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.
Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.
Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
Like, action to me is no fun if it's not built around character.