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I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.
If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.
Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
Music is human vibration. It makes humans vibrate and takes them someplace else.
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
I've learned to lose with a smile on my face. That's what the Oscar teaches you.
I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.
Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.
My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also.
It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away.
In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.
At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.
At a certain point, you have to kind of realize that greatness is a messy thing.
The better world we want is coming. It's just waiting for us to stop at nothing.
Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.
Love is about finding courage inside of you that you didn’t even know was there.
No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.
Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.
Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.
Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.
As society evolves, people are interested in a new take on an old beloved story.
Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.
I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.
A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.
The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.
Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.