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I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.
'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.
I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time.
The immigration process is so unbelievably complicated and expensive and endless!
I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.
When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.
I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.
At the end of the day, the less money you have, the easier it is to make a movie.
I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
I think one of the biggest jobs of being a director is getting the casting right.
My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.
As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.
The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set
I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.
America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.
Horror films are the anchovies of the cinema. Either you like them, or you don't.
I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.
Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.
I've been very surprised by people asking me what my teenage experience was like.
As a producer, I learned not to declare anything about a movie I'm not directing.
I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.
It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.
My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
I do own a unicycle, which I use for workout purposes as opposed to doing tricks.
Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself. That, and those great big furry spiders.
I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.
I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.
The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.
Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?
Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
The best way to move forward - to bury the past. That doesn't mean you forget it.
Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.
I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
A friend is not the one that will kill for you, but the one that will die for you
There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.
I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.
I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.
Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.
The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.