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All Quotes Collection
"The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me."
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"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."
43
"As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen."
39
"Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction."
42
"I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart."
42
"There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them."
40
"The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else."
67
"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."
59
"This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow."
56
"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Luck,
57
"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic."
47
"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."
37
"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
83
"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government."
50
"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."
48
"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."
51
"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
Film,
52
"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."
58
"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."
52
"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
55
"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."
55
"Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places."
48
"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."
47
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
78
"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."
56
"I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways."
22
"Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country."
37
"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal."
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