The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.
Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.
I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.
With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.
'Lethal Weapon' sold apropos of nothing when I was very young, but that was a very different market.
Should a story be readily told in a PG-13 fashion, it should be for creative, not business, reasons.
Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.
Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.
Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.