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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.
I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.
If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?
If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces.
My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.
Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.
I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.
Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.
For me, the filmmaking should serve the story, first and foremost.
One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.
If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.
Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.
You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.
I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.
I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.
I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.
Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
Of course I do things in my voice in my commentary, which I wrote.
I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes.
The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.
I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.
In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!
I am a straight talker. I am not politically correct or diplomatic.
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.
Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.