I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
That thought process that somehow other people have to be worse off in order for you to be better off does not work. People get on boats people jump fences to get away from that kind of thought process.
Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him on many different occasions.
When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.
It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.
