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Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.
If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
That transcends everything - skipping the transfer of dailies is a game-changer.
Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.
I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.
I grew up quite poor, and the Mormon church was always there for us as a family.
I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.
Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.
I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.
The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.
I couldn't believe that people went to see 'Saw,' that people actually lined up.
Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.
I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.
I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.
Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.
Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.
I want to make people see that evil is seductive and that we need to be careful.
Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.
Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.
When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.
Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.
In the pie chart of my brain growing up, there's a huge slice for 'Ghostbusters.'
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.
I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.
A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.
I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.