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When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.
It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.
All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.
Zombies, mummies - they're disgusting and gross. You don't want to make out with a mummy. At least, I don't.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.
I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.
I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.
Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.
My sister Zoya and I have been exposed to the best of cinema of all kinds - Chinese, Japanese, Italian, etc.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.
'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.
The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.
It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.
If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.
Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.
When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.
I read, every day, the 'Wall Street Journal''s editorials because I like to think how my smart enemy thinks.
The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness… it's manipulative and deeply political.
A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it.
Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.