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aken’ is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
I really believe in 3-D. I really think it is the wave of the future for cinema.
My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.
The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.
Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.
I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.
It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.
I have always put the same effort in all my films irrespective of their outcome.
Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
To me, love means being free of your own bondage and connecting to another soul.
Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.
My mother is special to me. She understands me. She has no expectations from me.
I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.
I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one
I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.
I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.
Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
To be successful at anything, you need the right to fail, not just occasionally.
The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.
My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along.
If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.
I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.
A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.
Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.
I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.