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I'll reshoot a corridor 13 different ways, and you'll never recognise them.
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.
I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.
As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.
I am pro-expression. I am pro - you know, as long as you don't hurt anyone.
English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it
I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.
I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera.
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.
Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.
Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.
I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.
I didn't get upset because I wasn't nominated, but I was a little surprised.
Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.
I'm appreciated more abroad. In America, Japan... and in the United Kingdom.
Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.
Everybody's got creativity. Dive within to the ocean of infinite creativity.
I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'
I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.
It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.
John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.
An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.
That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.
I'm certainly not a fan of conversion when you could shoot the movie in 3-D.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
I learned from Rossellini that you are rich even if you have a little money.