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True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.
I think the extremes are something that's really interesting to see coalesce in movies.
I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that.
And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.
I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.
Ginger Rogers was one of the worst, red-baiting, terrifying reactionaries in Hollywood.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.
When you're portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.
Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.
Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Films have to appeal to youngsters - it has to have tamasha, drama, and sensationalism.
The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.
I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
Molly Ringwald's characters always had a complex personal life, and I appreciated that.
The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.
I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.
I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
My close friends call me the bulldozer who never says no. I have never not made a film.
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.
It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.
Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.
Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.
I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].
A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.
I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.
I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.
I acted as a kid. I always liked it, but I don't really have a performer's personality.
Outside of his loving family, I'm sure that Andy Griffith was Don Knotts' greatest fan.
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented.
I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.