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We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
I'm so consistent that my director's cuts are usually 20-25 minutes longer than the released version of the movies.
I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.
In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.
Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.
Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.
There's nothing wrong with being driven. And there's nothing wrong with putting yourself first to reach your goals.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.
So many American and international producers want to shoot in the U.K. because of our crew base and tax incentives.
I used to worry about losing my husband to another woman. Now, I'm more afraid of losing my nanny to another woman.
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.
You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.
That's one of the best things about the RED ONE - I can use all the best lenses that have been used in film forever.
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.
Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
A lot of low-budget genre films you see are horror movies, because horror is the friendliest movie to lack of money.
I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.
People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.
Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.
You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.