I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something inreturn. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.
What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
I just needed time alone with my own thoughts Got treasures in my mind but couldn’t open up my own vault
Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
I grew up addicted to 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible.' Now I switch between 'South Park' and 'C-Span.'
Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
