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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
Confidence is essential, but ego is not.
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
Learn to say, “I don’t know the answer.” It could be the beginning of a very good day’s rehearsal.
Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
Every Bond is different and every generation needs a different Bond and it's been able to move with the times.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
The moment you have kids, you are prey to judgment, but you also become a judge. You find yourself going, "Can you believe what she did with such-and-such?" at school.
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
Politicizing of kids starts with pregnancy, of course. You shouldn't be drinking wine. You can't be smoking, either. The poor woman is poked and prodded and touched and obsessed over.
Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.