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I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.
Balancing the complex point of view in the edit room was mostly a matter of challenging ourselves to keep digging deeper.
As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser.
If you asked me today if there's a piece that I would do differently - there's nothing. Regret happens with all my films.
A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
I always think to shoot action scenes is not really about the stunts. It's more about an expression and about imagination.
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.
We were working on 'Senna' for a long time before we were fully financed, so we didn't actually have an editor for a while.
And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.
I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.
Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.
I think it's a problem if you don't compensate people that have got no money, because I really feel you're exploiting them.
To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.
I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.
There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.
If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be first of all to carry a message of respect.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.
I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.
It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.
Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.
I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.