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There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.
I'm not a guy's guy. I always loved girl things. I loved dolls. I loved dressing up and much more.
I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.
I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.
We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.
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.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.
You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
Gaining trust is not difficult for me. I needed to gain the trust of the North Korean supervisors.
What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.
I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.
I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.
I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.
This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad.
I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.
'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.
Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.
I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.