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In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.
Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.
Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.
I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.
Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.
Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.
My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’
Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.
When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.
I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?
I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.
The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.
Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.
Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.
I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind.
How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.
I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.
Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.
Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
My influences happen at more of a subconscious level, I don't dig too deep into that or analyze it myself.
Exactly one day in your life your kid will ski as good as you do. The next day, he'll ski better than you.
There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
I have always thought that if you can give viewers the sense of being there a story can be very compelling.