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Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.
Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.
I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.
I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.
I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears.
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.
I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.
I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.
There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’
My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.
I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.
I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity.
L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.
The Hollywood system has its own problems. Movie making is never an easy job.
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?
The thing people don't get about Indian films is that the songs are the story.
Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
I lived a significant portion of my life before the Internet and smart phones.
Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.
I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.
Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.
Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.
I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.
There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!
You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.
Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.
Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.