Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
