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We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.
That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.
I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.
There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.
I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.
There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.
When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.
This is what art can do in our time. Unite people, and give them hope.
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.
My father was 65 when I was born so we didn't have much time together.
I'd like to make the film of Sam Selvon's book 'The Lonely Londoners.'
Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice.
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.
A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.
For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.
I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.
I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.
I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.
'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.
It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!
We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.
A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.
Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.
If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.
I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.
Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact.
Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
There's no way for me to anticipate what people will like or not like.
We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.
I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.
Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?