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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.
Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.
I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.
I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.
Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.
Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.
Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.
My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.
The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
Celebrate your victories and mark your defeats. Ultimately documentary filmmaking is not a job, it's a calling.
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!
I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'
When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democratic societies.
Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.
I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.
I am very, very tuned into people. If something's wrong, I can sense it from the moment they walk in the studio.
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.
I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.
It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.
I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.
I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.