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Quotes by Director
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
167
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
164
"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."
164
"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."
162
"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."
161
"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,
158
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
157
"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
141
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
135
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
129
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
125
"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,
114
"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
110
"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
103
"Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else."
103
"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
103
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
101
"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
100
"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."
98
"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."
97
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
97
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
Evil,
93
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
93
"It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos."
92
"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."
90
"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."
88
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