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The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that.
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.
I consider myself a completely lucky filmmaker. I've had nothing but good luck. Everything I've needed has come my way.
Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.
We watch movies about all sorts of things that we don't know anything about, but we do get caught up in the human drama.
Sometimes, something seems dead, and then out of the blue, someone just figures out the way to fix a script and it goes.
You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.
Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.
I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
When you come to documentaries, the stakes are too low for it to be cutthroat. You're all doing it for the right reasons.
You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there.
I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you.
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.
I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.
In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
I hope people will like 'The Conjuring 2' because I think it is a very natural and organic progression of the first movie.
The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.
There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.
I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.
Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.
Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.
When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!
In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.
I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.
For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.