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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.
If you're in America or Europe, walk for three blocks, and you'll pass about 14 Vikings. Their reach was immense.
R-rated comedies make as much money as PG-13. And I think the audiences wanna be shocked. Especially with comedy.
I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!
I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.
I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"
I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring
I like interacting with fans, and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
My dad's uncles were illegal bookmakers who were known in the area as Peaky Blinders, that's the stories I heard.
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
I think certain movies work and that is part of the magic of it all. We can't truly define why something succeeds.
No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.
I think when Sarah Palin opened her mouth and started talking, the more she talked, the less appealing she became.
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
I love what they do with 'Doctor Who,' where they have the series, and then they do a big Christmas movie special.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.
The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?
When it's something you really adore, I think you don't want to be the one who accidentally writes a crap episode.
Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.
I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.
With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.
I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.
Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.
I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.
I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.
It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.
There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...
I'm single again and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm loving it at the moment. This is what I've been missing.
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.