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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.
But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.
I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.
I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.
I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
Pakistani feature films are all about catering to the male ego and male fantasy.
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.
To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.
I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.
The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.
She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.
It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country.
I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.
To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art.
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.
In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day.
As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.
I use depth in my visuals even in 2-D, and found that 3-D is actually liberating.
Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.
I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal.
Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.
I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.
As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.
I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.
They say that depression is anger you turn on yourself, and I think women do that.