Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.
I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in supporting the new generation of cinema. I like taking some time to try to support and be a part of that.
From where I started to where I'm at right now I'm loaded in retrospect to the opportunities that I have. As far as money and the scheme of the world, I don't cash in. I do films because I'm sensitive and maybe stupid, and that I feel like I'm going to have fun on and feel like I'm going to have a good experience with. It's not about punching in and selling soap.
I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say. " I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.
Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.