I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

What is done, is done: Spend not the time in tears, but seek for justice.

I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall.

I always told myself after 'Jem,' I don't want fear to change my choices.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

It's not interesting to achieve; the ways of achievement are interesting.

Everywhere I went I experienced the same success, which transcends words.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

Cinema is a great medium for creating a dream world and entering into it.

Modi talks about Congress Mukt Bharat. I feel this is a fascist ideology.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.

I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

I am not in favor of killing - that for me is the line not to be crossed.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards.

Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.

The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

True 3D is, you have to kind of originate the images in three dimensions.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

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