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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.
I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
I'm not a walking encyclopedia. I'm not one of those types that knows every single film ever made or can recite every dialog.
I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.
Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
It was an impulsive at her zenith Zeenat decision to act in 'Boom,' I signed the film after 70 per cent of the movie was done.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.
My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.
I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
I dare make those comparisons, but we often said 'the making of' would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
I've directed five films and I've proven that people have made money with my films - many people have made money with my films.
I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].
I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.
So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.
It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life.
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.
My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.