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All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.
The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.
Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him.
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.
When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.
We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.
Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.
I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.
Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.
When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.
We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.
War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.
Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.
Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.
In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.
There is no light in electronincs. There is lightening. But lightening is not real light.
There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.
Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.
I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
I couldn't imagine screaming 'Action!' on an outdoor set over a wind machine or whatever.
For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.
Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.