You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.
You have Kurt [Cobain], and he's singing about your experiences. They're our collective experiences.
I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
You work with the communities to make films. And you just don't go in and take over their territory.
I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.
I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.
When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity...I can be sure that I am right.
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed
I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.
My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.
When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.
There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
I come from theater and captured theater has a bad rap of being never what the live performance was.
A lot of us love seeing characters on screen who say and do things we would never dare in real life.
I just have no interest in making a biopic. No offence to biopics, it's just not where my mind goes.
We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not.
I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.
Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.
I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.
Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.