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Quotes by Director
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
106
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
106
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
104
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
103
"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."
102
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
99
"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
97
"Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement."
Film,
96
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
Film,
95
"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
91
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
90
"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
85
"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
82
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
80
"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."
77
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
76
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
71
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
68
"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
67
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
66
"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
65
"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
65
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
64
"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."
64
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
63
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
63
"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
62
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
61
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