I've always believed in making films that you make the little decisions with your head, but you make the big decisions with your heart.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the book has ended.

I'm not afraid to delay the schedule to make sure that this is the film that I want, that this is the best that I can do at that point.

I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.

I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.

Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire. I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

With documentaries, what's beautiful about them is that you capture something unique in a shot, something that will never repeat itself.

I grew up cinematically in the '70s. I was watching a lot of Godard, Bresson, Dreyer, and all sorts of old films and the Czech New Wave.

There are no free rides nor short cuts in this world. 'The Voice' and 'The Bachelorette' are very poor examples to model your life with.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

I have an image of Shanghai, which is quite different from other directors, I think. The story of Shanghai should happen in back alleys.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded.

I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video.

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

Audiences are an unknown mystery to me, so I can't really predict anything. For me, the best audience is myself, my crew, and the actors.

I believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

The whole world, it's a problem that there's too much stuff being produced. We don't have time to reflect on the important things in life.

The directors whose films scare me the most, are the ones who carefully hide the aggression in the background, and don't show it directly.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

On 'Senna,' it got to the point where there was so much footage that our first editor had the wild suggestion that we only use the archive.

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

I've been co-writing a TV thing with Bryan Cranston, which we are going to find out soon if it's moving forward or not which is for Amazon.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

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