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Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.
Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.
It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.
The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.
I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.
Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.
Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.
I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.
Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.
I also won one from the emperor of Japan, with a prize for the arts. That's important.
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.
So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
I will, then, always love sin and the world until I truly sense that Christ is better.
But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.
An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.
The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.
I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.
I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.
Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.
Pompeii was an incredibly corrupt city. Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.
'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.
I like to see women getting drenched in the rain. So to that extent, I like 'Barsaat.'
I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.
Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.
From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.
Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
The domination of one's spirit and mind is not a pretty thing, but I think it happens.
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.
I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.