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If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.
When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking.
You're never nice to your friends. You're nice to people you don't like!
Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.
Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.
I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.
In 'Scream,' there is very real drama that would be in almost any drama.
I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.
Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.
So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.
The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
That is the limit of IMDb. You can get into any IMDb page and hack stuff.
Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.
If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.
I think the semantics of mini-series for a network is that it has an end.
Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.
If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.
I do take things away from reading reviews. I think they keep you honest.
I call it Inherent Twice because I am looking forward to seeing it again.
Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.
I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.
Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.
Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.
Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.
The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'