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I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
The country gets so beat up in the media. It's worth remembering how much we love America.
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
I don't like reverse-angle shots - I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.
There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions.
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.
I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.
I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.
Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.
I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.
Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
Be true to yourself. Don't take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.
There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.
Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.
I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.
I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.
Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.
Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
Being pregnant changes you as a human being and it gives you a whole lot of mixed feelings.
You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.