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Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.
Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.
I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.
Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job.
I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.
I'm always fascinated by the theme of children who parent the adults.
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women.
My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.
Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.
The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.
Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader
I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.
I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing.
'Star Wars' gave birth to all the computer-generated superhero films.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.
Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.
The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.
All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.
I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.
Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.
During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.
There's so many versions of 'Red Riding Hood.' It goes back 700 years.
When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.
You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.
There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.
You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.
Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.