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Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.
I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.
He was never a kung fu guy. Now, he's Mr. Kung Fu. Oh, man. Even Chow Yun-Fat gets typed!
I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
The most depressing thing is the political slogan: there is no alternative. But there is.
Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.
I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.
After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.
Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.
Where I find things tough is when things are hidden, and people don't say what they mean.
My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.
What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material.
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.
You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species.
If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.
I don't want the director to have to make any decisions except to say "action" and "cut."
I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.
Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.
There are a couple of locations in 'The Hobbit' that are shared with 'Lord of the Rings.'
Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.
I won't even think about acting in a role where I didn't do a back story for a character.
Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.
When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.
I sometimes think many reviewers write the reviews of my films even before they see them.
We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.
Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.
I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.
If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
You can have integrity with your art, but worrying about integrity doesn't pay the bills.
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.
I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.
I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.