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Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because were from North England.
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!
I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.
I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
When you have critics filing on Twitter, it leaves no time for thought and perspective.
That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.
You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.
After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds.
I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.
My ideas tend to be either really big in terms of like, the logistics, or really small.
I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
Beliefs that are good promote your potential and enhance your unique special qualities.
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?
You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.
I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.
My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.'
I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.
Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
The Iran-Iraq war began the same year that I went to primary school, at the age of six.
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart
When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.
When you have the feeling that anything’s possible, sometimes you wind up acting on it.
There seems to be a lot of excitement around something that, to me, is a yawn, frankly.
In my short acting career, I've been in incredible relationships with incredible women.
I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well