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Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
Bollywood is a cinema of vibrant contradictions, which works when it seems it shouldn't.
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.
The conscious decision, early on, was that I was going to live in New York. That was it.
Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
Star Trek' is not just about literal exploration, but also the exploration of ourselves.
Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.
Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.
Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.
Working with cool people helps when working with few shots. You trust yourself and them.
I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.
I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.
I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.
Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.
My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.
You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
When I was a kid, every field trip was to some Roman fort because it was cheap and free.
I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.
Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.
When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.
There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.
You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.
The more you populate the 360-degree space, the more difficult it is to cut within that.
The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.