The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence, --- not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in ...
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
…Shunsuké hated the preoccupation with modern psychology that judged his casual, offhand remarks or his daily actions as betraying his identity or ideas with better clarity than did his highly polished sentences.
I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't ...
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved t...
I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.
I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.
'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.
There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!
