I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...
The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in number or magnitude, from the changes advocated by those considered liberal…change, as such, is simply not a controversial issue. Yet a common practi...
How....will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
