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It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
If I told my 14-year-old self that I'd be hanging out with Keith Richards talking about records, my head would've exploded.
Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.
I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.
My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.
Starting from scratch and seeing the smile on a client's face when it all comes together in the end - it's a lovely feeling.
If you ask me about my chosen colour palette for the clothes I wear myself, I'm usually one for more neutral, subtle shades.
If I have free time, I want to go to the beach, walk around a shopping mall, go grocery shopping. Live a little bit of life.
We're committed to giving the independent artists we support the best stage to share their mind-blowing work with audiences.
I really am passionate about making low-budget movies. You can try new stuff and unusual stuff, and you can break the rules.
I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile.
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)
A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
I believe a person who designs for the sheer passion of creativity can do so across media - it is like any other form of art.
I realized that food was actually a metaphor for bringing us all together. It's about us communicating and being like family.
The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.
You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."
I loved doing casting because I love actors, and I am very conscious of what actors do. But I always wanted to be a producer.
We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling.
I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.
I should have known something was wrong with my first wife. When I brought her home to meet my parents, they approved of her.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
The hair is part of my image, part of my persona. And the hair is no accident: I have to gel it vertical every single morning.
I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
I'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.
I feel like, with most filmmakers of my generation, I like the over-the-top stuff. I like to be wacky and really in your face.