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Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
The consequences of man-made climate change are real and very significant.
I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.
The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.
I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.
Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.
Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.
The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.
Some people consider me worse than Hitler, luckily for others I am Jesus.
Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register.
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Anybody who has traveled with a significant other before knows it's tough.
I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.
Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.
Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.
My father was always saying we were Serbs, but I didn't pay much attention.
I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.
[Gal Gadot] is really intense and scary and also incredibly warm and sweet.
It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.
I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.
You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.
I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.
Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.
People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.
There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.
I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.
I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.
'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.