I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You're looking for every shot in the movie to have resonance and want it to be something you can see a second ...
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.
A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.
I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious and really not my cup of tea.
To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
