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Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.
Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.
Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.
The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply
When you work on something in an edit room with just a couple of other people, you never know how it is going to be received.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.
Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.
I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.
I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.
My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.
It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.
I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
For a long time I was free. I didn't belong to any type of studio, or any company. I kept a sort of freedom and a light touch.
In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.
Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.
When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.
I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.
I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.
I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.
If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.
I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.
The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.
It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.
I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.
Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.