So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.
You're good, you're real good.
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root.
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like.
A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.
I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
At a young age, I became very aware that not only did my family have to struggle but that families around the country were struggling as well. Also, being Jewish and having lost relatives in the Holocaust, I've always been aware of the meaning of prejudice. These are things that have remained with me throughout my political career.