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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.
I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.
I'm not a knowledgeable comic fanatic, as a lot of other people are.
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair.
I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.
I'm definitely of a generation that's very influenced by videogames.
What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family.
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.
I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.
We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.
The more you succeed, the more you want people to love your efforts.
Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
There is dignity in being a celebrity. Let us not lose that dignity.
Remember to use your vote. Remember to speak out and feel empowered.
I'm trying to keep up with what's happening in this turbulent world.
'She's Gotta Have It' was shot in twelve days and two six-day weeks.
I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.
I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.
Dialogue works the least well when it's telling you what's going on.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.
I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
I really didn't want to become branded as 'that multistructural guy.'
Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.
I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.
It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
I like to do drama, something about life that could be disappointing.
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other.
Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.
I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.
I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.
Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.
I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.
It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.