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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".
The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence
I don't want to know how you did it. I want to believe you are magic.
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?
If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.
When I have a low budget I always try to make it a lesson in economy.
I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.
Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.
Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?
I think the environment is the biggest threat mankind has ever faced.
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.
When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.
Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?
That's a question you'd have to present to people in the White House.
The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.
Ultimately, you're happiest in yourself when you make your best work.
I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.
The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.
Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.
My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it.
The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.
I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.
You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.
I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.
Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.
So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.
He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?
Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.