Each success brings with it the potential of failure and each failure brings with it the potential of success.
The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.
I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so. . . I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but. . . what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.
I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.
All of the films I'm doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That's the zone where I'd like to play and have fun in.
Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composition so they're not burdened by legacy policy. Now, if you combine this with a good macro policy and ambitious structural policy, those countries are able to move more flexibly and be more agile.
I'm not gonna box Ruiz. . . I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.
Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.