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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.
For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.
I don't think you can become what they became without being more than just a pretty face and a great body - you had to have something else.
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.
To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.
The original title for 'In the Mood for Love' was called 'A Story About Food.' The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.
Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.
The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.
What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.
I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.
The autumn wind is a Raider, / Pillaging just for fun; / He'll knock you around, / And upside down, / And laugh when he's conquered and won.
Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.
My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.
I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.
Most people only remember Maradona for the bad parts now. But he was a genius, someone who lifted us and himself up to the level of the gods.
I know it is crazy, but I want to create a place where people can come in an organised way to think differently, to think their own thoughts.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders r worse.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it, and just go make films.
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.
I don't regret any past. I am not there. I am not sorry not to make pictures, because I know one day I will do it. I intend to live 150 years.
Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
There's this great TV show we have called 'Later... with Jools Holland', a live-music show on Friday nights. Anyone and everyone's been on it.
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.
I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.
What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.