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People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.
Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.
San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal
I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.
Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
We want to make movies for the big screen. We want people to go to the theater and feel like they're watching a movie.
There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.
In the entertainment industry, careers don't last very long - and online, careers last an even shorter amount of time.
I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.
I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him.
People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.
I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
Somehow, we fall in love with the films and don't want to let go, but financially and physically, we cannot afford it.
I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.
I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.
The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.
You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
I've often thought even ragtag gatherings of documentary filmmakers are more fun than gatherings of fiction filmmakers.
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.
It's wonderful that Poland is free again and there's open debate and people can pursue their interests. I'm all for it.
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.
I'm not good at anything else. I just don't have a talent for anything other than filmmaking. Luckily, it's worked out.
When I started skiing my pants were baggy and my cheeks were tight------Now my cheeks are baggy and my pants are tight.
My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
I don't have these crazy deadlines. I don't have this, 'Oh it's got to be out tomorrow.' I don't like working like that.
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.
The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.
The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation.
Wherever I make a movie, no matter what size it is, it's always about a straightforward communication with the producer.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.