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Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.
Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.
I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.
But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.
Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.
I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.
When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.'
I like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.'
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.
Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
I really liked the 'Pitch Black' DVD, and I liked the commentary.
Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.
I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.
My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.
When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.
To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.
Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
When I film, there are no emotions. That would be the last thing.
One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
When you’re unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open
Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
Time is what allows stories to spread into people's consciousness.
I think I want to talk about life from the point of view of death.
We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.
The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.