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All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
There are millions to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let thisget around.
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
There needs to be the support and help around you, even when you may have an unhealthy home environment.
I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.
The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.
So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.
I feel like if you boil supernatural ghost films down to their core essence, they're really about death.
Creating 'Upgrade' was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.
I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.
What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.
Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.
But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.
There was definitely a sense that 'The Next Generation' was the 'Star Trek' stepchild that nobody liked.
I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.
When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.
I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.
The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.
Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.
These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
Believe you can and you can. Believe you will and you will. See yourself achieving, and you will achieve.
I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
I hope that I helped to build a fierce pride in what we are and what we can do if we set our minds to it.
If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.
Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.