And I love shooting football.

I was a disinterested student.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

I have demons you can't even imagine.

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

I was always interested in films that scar.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

It's a very American thing to hide away from death.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.

Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

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