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My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
John Waters
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Film Director
Camels
Mules
Nativity
Parent
Scary
Life Fear Me
Drive
Biggest
Hide
Straw
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I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'
Josh Fox
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Film Director
Car
Carbon
Electric
Footprint
New Car
Toyota
Whole
Love Your Me
Build
Love Car Your
Love Car Me
Drive
Less
Old
Still
Fuel-Efficient
Road
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It's difficult to make the interesting feature films that don't fit easily into a genre, even on modest budgets. It's tough to get those films made, but I'd rather try to get those films made than compromise too much.
Julian Jarrold
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Film Director
Interesting
Too Much
Trying
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I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and found their audience despite being about topics that were outside of the mainstream.
Justin Simien
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Film Director
Features
Film School
Specialty
Topics
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
Karan Johar
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Film Director
Emotion
Personal Life
Life Love Believe
Talk
Choose
Invariably
Personal
Reciprocated
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I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
Karyn Kusama
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Film Director
Animal
Embrace
Oneself
Parenthood
Unkindness
Reject
Reveals
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I love the studio system. Love that studio system and all their money. They're great; I think they're fabulous . You know, what it is right now is I feel like I'm still learning as a filmmaker, I'm still starting out.
Katie Aselton
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Film Director
Fabulous
Starting Out
Thinking
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There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch.
Ken Loach
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Film Director
Boss
Producers
Executive
Second-Guess
Shoulder
So Many People
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There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress.
King Vidor
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Film Director
Earth
Human Progress
Inexorable
Movement
Contributions
Small
Major
Story
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I'm fighting against my will to control. I think that is what I am doing. I would like to accept things in life, in all matters of life I would like to accept, but it's so difficult. I think we all have this struggle.
Lars Von Trier
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Film Director
Fighting
Struggle
Thinking
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Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.
Martin Scorsese
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Film Director
People
Sense Of Humor
Thinking
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I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right.
Mike Binder
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Film Director
Diamond
Horizon
Cracking
First Of All
Spot
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If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.
Mike Nichols
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Film Director
Different
Different Things
Fun
God Help
Invisible
Suspense
Legend
Master
Practical
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I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune.
Milos Forman
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Film Director
Paint
Accessible
Poem
Tune
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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Film Director
God
Truth
Broke
Hands
Mirrors
Persian
Pieces
Said
Everybody
Had
Greatest
Thought
Fell
Looked
Mirror
Piece
Poets
Took
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The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.
Neill Blomkamp
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Film Director
Genre
Lure
War History Me
Magical
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When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
Richard Linklater
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Film Director
Stage
Suburbia
Inside
Saw
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I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.
Rithy Panh
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Film Director
Dignity
Family And Friends
Stronger
Helped
Survive
To Survive
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I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
Robert Rodriguez
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Film Director
Generations
Bilingual
Primarily
Third
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There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.
Ron Howard
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Film Director
Tv Series
Hours And Hours
Unfolds
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Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.
Ryan Coogler
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Film Director
Gun
People
Taken
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The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.
Stanley Kubrick
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Film Director
Essence
Ideas
People
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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
Steven Shainberg
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Film Director
Artist
Century
Contact
Daring
Enigmatic
Mysterious
Deeply
Diane
Emerged
Profoundly
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Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.
Sydney Pollack
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Film Director
Accepted
Shocked
Territory
Assumed
Languages
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My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts.
Taika Waititi
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Film Director
Teacher
Artist
Different
English Teacher
Involved
Mother
Taste
Theatre
Visual
Arts
Books
English
Read
Developed
Forced
Him
Influenced
Varied
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The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema.
Todd Haynes
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Film Director
Division
Independent Film
Footing
Vastly
Visions
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I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Film Director
Art
Country
Thinking
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It's always very interesting to bet who's going to go first and who is going to have the most unbelievable death. It's always fun to play with that and create more expectation. It's an interesting part of horror movie.
Alexandre Aja
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Film Director
Fun
Interesting
Play
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Each person makes their own choice, but my spirit is meant to stay in Iran, especially with the work that I do, and with the emotional connection I have with the country - with all its difficulties, this is why I stay.
Asghar Farhadi
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Film Director
Country
Emotional
Iran
Meant
Connection
Difficulties
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There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
Asghar Farhadi
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Film Director
Creative
Disagree
People
Privilege
Restriction
Thinking
Slogan
In Other Words
Misleading
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If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.
Asghar Farhadi
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Film Director
Movie
Film
Theatre
Inside
Your People Will
Actually
After
Questions
Begins
Simply
Watch
Fact
People Will Your
Give
In Fact
Pose
Viewer
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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it Array; so we can help prevent it.
Bryan Singer
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Film Director
Respect
Evil
Mean
Understanding
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The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.
Cameron Crowe
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Film Director
Character
Heart
Hero
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I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.
Casey Neistat
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Film Director
Capable
Flip
Hundred
Sand
Physically
Jump
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I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
Claire Denis
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Film Director
Abroad
Belong
Foreigner
In Fact
Link
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The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed.
Danny Boyle
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Film Director
Facts
Way
Will To Survive
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I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.
Eli Roth
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Film Director
Gun
Iron
Rose
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I don't want people to feel: "Why am I watching this? It's sick and sadistic." I want people to watch and think it's scary but they can't wait to see what happens next. I also wanted to make a movie that was watchable.
Eli Roth
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Film Director
People
Sick
Thinking
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
Errol Morris
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Film Director
Caption
Language
World
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Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.
Frank Oz
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Film Director
Bottom
Bottom Line
Corporations
Hollywood
Anymore
Chances
Heads
Studio
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I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off the treadmill to write down my ideas. It's a great place to 'zone out' and think about my plots and characters.
Franny Armstrong
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Film Director
Character
Thinking
Writing
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The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.
Gaspar Noe
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Film Director
New York
Class
People
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In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.
George Lucas
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Film Director
Loss
Our Society
Would Be
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You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.
George Lucas
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Film Director
Jobs
Best Job
People
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I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.
George Lucas
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Film Director
Successful
Thinking
Want
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For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.
Gore Verbinski
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Film Director
Actors
Awkward
Return
Affects
Happiest
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Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!
Hayao Miyazaki
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Film Director
People
Real
Taken
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As far as documentaries go, I believe unreservedly that they serve an important function in our culture. I'd love to be able to make both documentaries and feature films simultaneously, but so far that hasn't happened.
Hirokazu Koreeda
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Film Director
Believe
Culture
Important
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My 22-minute film, which I called 'The Sword and the Flute', turned out to be a romantic film about India made by someone who had never been to India, but who already had very romantic feelings about everything Indian.
James Ivory
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Film Director
Flute
Sword
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Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Film Director
Mean
Thinking
Want
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