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There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game.
I thought if I was lucky it would be a nice, modest-sized, modest-budgeted film that would be a modest success. And then something happened.
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.
I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.
If the Olympic Spirit is about overcoming every hurdle and accepting no limits, then I think Samsung is a great ambassador for these values.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.
I think without the harsh critics, I would maybe have not made progress. From BloodRayne on, I spent more time and money on the development.
Skeptic that I was as an adolescent, I had recently come to believe in a Supreme Being after thumbing through a Victoria's Secret catalogue.
I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.
You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.
There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.
Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
We make movies for the cineplex. They're designed for wide release. They're designed to be seen by a lot of people and eventually make money.
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
I think that running a studio gave me an appetite for making a lot of different kinds of movies and it's given me the opportunity to do that.
If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.
When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.
I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell, and it's actually been really nice.
If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.
My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.
I'm a nice person! I have healthy life drives and goals! I don't drink, I don't smoke. I would never force myself sexually on a blind person!
And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.
I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.
The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
The first night I met Yo-Yo Ma, I found him the most charming person I had ever met, and I was willing to follow him with the camera anywhere.
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
You know, what we list as a hate group are groups that vilify or defame entire groups of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.
If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.
A lot of the reasons why people are annoyed at found footage movies is because people look at it like it's easy and that they could do it, too.
It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
I'm a good party guest...the problem is, I feel like I'm working all the time. "Give us an Elvis Presley story! Give us a Frank Sinatra story!"
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.
It's what I always dreamed of: that you can make TV and everyone would get out of your way and you follow your vision without watering it down.
You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.
There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.