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I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
[about the Hotel Marmont on Sunset Blvd., a piece of Hollywood history] I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.
To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.
The whole Orion zeitgeist, of treating filmmakers as partners, to me it's inseparable from the success of 'Silence of the Lambs'.
I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.
I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.
Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.
I don't know what directing actors is all about apart from just casting well and then shaping their performances a bit, you know.
Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."
When I have people trust me with their money, I am obligated to give them a great film. I am not obligated to give them a profit.
That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.
The people who like my work, I know that I can't trick them into laughing someplace where there is not a genuine reason to laugh.
We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears.
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.
'Neil Young Heart of Gold', that was a valentine to Nashville and country music in the Grand Ole Opry tradition and Hank Williams.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.
I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.
Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.
I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.
We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.
Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.
The cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.
For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?
The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.
We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.
If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.
When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.