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It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.
[On The Hunger Games success]: "It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.
Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment.
Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.
My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life.
I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.
Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.
I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
With 'Insidious 2,' I wanted to push a potential franchise in the direction I thought it should go in.
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.
I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.
When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.
Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.
The best thing about being a film producer is I get to spend 99 per cent of my time behind the scenes.
In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more.
Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.
It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.
I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.
It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.
But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!
Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.
'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
The cinematic universe will not worry about 'Legion.' They will not worry about these TV worlds at all.
Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.
There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.
Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.
It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.
I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.