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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.
I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.
I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.
I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.
It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
It's funny: I don't feel like I have any particular privileged feeling for the Fifties.
You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don’t hurt each other!
Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure.
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.
I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.
Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.
I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.
When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.
What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
I wouldn't take on the project unless I could have complete creative control in casting.
I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.
Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.
I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games.
If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.
You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.
Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.