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I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits.
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.
It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities.
There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
You can do a formula film and walk the conventional path, but it may not work at all.
Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.
I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.
I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.
I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.
In private I'm not. You will have to ask my wife. She maintains I'm a fluffy husband.
I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
I don't think anyone says "Wow, the best sex I ever had was when I was 16 years old."
You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.
The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there.
Of course, any movie that I make, that is released everywhere, gets a lot of exposure.
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
I really wanted our male characters to be a lot stronger. We gave them careers, lives.
When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.
In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
I'm a big fan of horror movies. But I prefer visceral to viscous, let's just say that.
Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.
I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.
We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.
I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
It can be very lonely and depressing to be a writer, and to be alone in your own head.
What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.