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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.
It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?
If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.
Documentaries can embrace contradictions in a way that journalism can't.
When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.
Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.
It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.
I live in Brooklyn, New York, and hail from the 'East Bay,' Oakland, CA.
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking
World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.
When I got the script for 'Eclipse,' I thought it was a damn good story.
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.
I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.
On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far.
I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!
The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.
There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.