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Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.
I like to be strong.
I like high impact movies.
It's totally thrilling to direct.
I'm interested in social commentary.
I don't know if I thrive in normal life.
I don't believe in censorship in any form.
I do have to say I have been very fortunate.
I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.
I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.
You only have so much money to shoot a movie with.
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.
I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.
I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.
I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesnt work like that.
Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.
You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.
I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.
I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.
Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.
I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.
I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.
What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.
War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
