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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.
'Warcraft' is going to be a period of my life I treasure and loathe at the same time.
Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.
Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.
My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.
I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.
'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water
I've never had to search for themes. My films just come naturally out of my interest.
All our thinking constitutes the new world, but all our thoughts are older and older.
I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.
I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.
Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.
I was as equally influenced by Bergman as I was [low-budget sexploitation filmmaker].
Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.
All of my definitions of family were heavily influenced by my 'Star Trek' experience.
It's a privilege to go and have fun and do what you're passionate about for a living.
Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
I love movies like 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' that are based on short novellas.
I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.
Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama.
Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.
If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
You cannot intellectualize yourself out of obsession. You cannot cure yourself of it.
What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
... Revenge, ... All of a sudden, revenge started brewing in the back of their minds.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.
When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'
Maybe part of being a dad means that the slightest little thing will make me tear up.
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.