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I don't go to games as much as I used to because of the NFL's Sunday Ticket. So I'll watch the games, take notes.
The hero has to be an archetype; they have to be like a dream; they have to be perfect. The evil is closer to us.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
I think the most important thing people can do is to learn about their watershed. And it's something no one knows.
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
Every movie I’ve made is different, but it’s because I’m different. I’m not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999.
There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?
I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.
One thing I'm not is a moralistic filmmaker. I'm not trying to tell people what to do, and I'm not trying to lead.
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
I sometimes feel fiction is the ideal preservation for real memories. Fiction is such a good place to keep things.
One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.
You do these movies, you give it out to the world and you really have no idea how people are going to react to you.
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile.
Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.
Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.
I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.
When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.
Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.
I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen.
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.
From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.
It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.
I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.