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Quotes by Director
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
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"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."
26
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
25
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
24
"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."
23
"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,
23
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
22
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
22
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
22
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
21
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
21
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
21
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
21
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
20
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
20
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"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."
18
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
18
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
18
"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
17
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
17
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
17
"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
17
"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
17
"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it."
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