Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 timessecond.
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.
It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow
You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!
The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years' War.
I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.