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The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.
I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
I have a feeling that inside you somewhere,there's somebody nobody knows about
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
My visuals are typically very powerful. The rhythm is fast. The cuts are fast.
Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.
As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.
You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.
It's always nerve-racking, showing your parents things you've been working on.
People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.
If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.
I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.
I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.
I was known for a while for doing very long takes, especially after Atonement.
I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.
We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
Miracles are short-term solutions, it's wisdom that helps you go the distance.