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People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.
More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'
Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.
I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.
I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.
Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.
I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.
I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.
Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.
Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.
Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.
I try to keep very simple ideas and keep them as emotionally powerful as possible.
My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”
When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.
Orange is an underrated color, it's the second most underrated color after yellow.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
It's great to try another format and be part of telling a story over ten episodes.
To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.
I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.
I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.
I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.
The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
You are likely to make more mistakes with a light-hearted film than a serious one.
Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.
I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.