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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
I think it's hard for quieter, more introverted people to get into acting.
I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.
We shouldn't feel insulated just because water flows freely from our taps.
I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.
There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.
I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.
For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.
We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.
If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.
In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.
If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.
A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.
The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.
I don't cry in real life. I'm just pretty light and I don't get too heavy.
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.
It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.
We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.
I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture.
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult.
Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.
People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.
There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.
I'm staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.
Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.
I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.
Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this.
If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars.
You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.
Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.
I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.