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Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.
I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.
A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.
Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.
When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.
I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
It's a nice way to put the focus back on this simple act... if someone creates you.
You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.
Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.
I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.
It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.
It causes havoc on set anytime a director wants to go backward rather than forward.
I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.
As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -
I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.
I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new.
When I was younger, I did dark movies. It was a reflection of what I saw around me.
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.
America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.