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Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
Most of my stuff was sort of of-the-time. 'The Crazies' was, basically, we were angry about Vietnam, and it had a reason for being.
I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.
There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.
for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.
I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.
[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.
From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.
William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.
I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.
I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.
I'm sick of '60s nostalgia. I've been to clubs in New York where it's just like the Fillmore East. And I thought I hated that then.
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.
One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.
When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.
People in New York, LA, San Francisco, they scratch their head at the concept of a gay Republican, but it really makes sense there.
If I went back to live-action, I'd have to do it the Pixar way. If I didn't, I'd feel like I was walking a tightrope without a net.
I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.
To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it becomes routine.
In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.
We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.
I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
Creativity is about taking what is the norm and expanding it and continuing to expand it and expand it and expand it and expand it.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
The album for Fiddler really took off. I think it was a combination of John Williams and the score. It was a very classy big album.
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.