Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.
I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.
I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.