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The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.
We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.
Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
When you have something that brings a real emotion, that's the power of cinema.
I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.
I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.
There were two second division matches last night, both in the second division.
My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.
To me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is definitely a landmark. It has taught me so much.
I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.
I will never make a film where zombies are threatening to take over the planet.
Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.
The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
I'm not so vocal. I try to get loud, but my voice will just crack or something.
I normally wear jeans and sneakers, but given an occasion, I enjoy dressing up.
Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.
For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.
The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.
When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.
I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.
I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
I've been watching things like 'Master of the Flying Guillotine' since I was 5.
Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.
I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.
People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.
I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.
I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.
I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.
The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.
We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.
I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.
The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.