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My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?
When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
One of the most powerful ways to keep people controlled is to use faith or guns or both.
A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.
Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited.
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.
Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.
I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.
My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.
I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.
I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?
I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.
Even if I know I'm going to go to a church, I don't know what the minister's going to say.
If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.
Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
Every city and country just has a different reason for wanting to host the [Olympic] games.
I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."
I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.