As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Start with scout locations first.
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
I’m an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.
I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.
Freedom is not having a big budget.
Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.
Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i. e. , of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
A lemon drop. They're a kind of Muggle sweet I'm rather fond of.