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I would never make an artwork that I wouldn't want to make forever. Wouldn't you want to make Trash Humpers [Korine's 2009 film] forever?
My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.
I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.
Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.
I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.
It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.
You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
Is it inevitable after a successful film that they're going to ask for another one? Yes. Do we want to rush and do it for that reason? No.
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.
Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
If a father could have made his son a star, then Sunny Deol's son Karan Deol's first film 'Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas' wouldn't have been a flop.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
To me, romantic means, um, you follow your heart more than your mind. Sometimes when you're shooting a film, you have to follow your heart.
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
I was a huge fan of 'Blade Runner.' That was a pretty formative film for me growing up. It really got my sci-fi juices flowing, as it were.
One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.
It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.
I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.
I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.
In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.
If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
I don't know how much a photograph can add to a biography, the way a film or writing or narrative medium could. Because it's a frozen image.
The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"
There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'