One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes.

I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

I consider everybody on 'Fast' my family, you know we grew up together.

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

I love to see great dialogue in the cinema but I hate to see 'Film TV.'

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Polarizing is the greatest achievement in any art form, even in cinema.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

It's so miserable and so easy to keep slamming Titanic -- I'll shut up.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

I think I have taken more holidays with Boman than I have with my wife.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'

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