If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue - in fact I'm sure I want to continue - to stay in the realm of independent films with directors and writers who are just emerging with new ideas and a...
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a...
When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and ...
I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, lik...
'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older tha...
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eigh...
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. To suppress this is dangerous. ...
No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will hav...
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
History made when mindset changed.
He didn't create the spark, he set the fire
My mother set us to an activity and let us be.
Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.
I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.
I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.