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If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.
I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
Obviously you have a responsibility - one would like to think there is such a thing as ethics in filmmaking.
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.
A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.
Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.
I have always felt that documentaries are an opportunity for me to witness a world that I know nothing about.
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.
I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.
Success is not only one thing. Its not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.
At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.
I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.
We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.
I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.
In books they don't have deleted scenes, like with DVDs. You could have your deleted scene in a book as well!
All my life, I have never found a person who really loved this world. Every person hates the world, how he is.
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off.
Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.
When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.