No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.
I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film. " But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures'. . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.
Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.