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Quotes by Director
"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."
Art,
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"People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good."
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"I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints."
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"But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be."
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"It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?"
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"All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives."
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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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"I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience."
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"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything."
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"Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug."
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"And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head."
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"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
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"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
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"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it."
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"They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me."
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"The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A."
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"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
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"I position everything else in my life around making movies."
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"After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers."
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"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
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"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused."
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"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."
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"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it."
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