I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
Amy: Up. Rory: What good's up? Amy: Better than down. -Doctor Who
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
La peur du lendemain est une plaisanterie comparée a celle de la veille. Et le destin n'est rien qu'un peu de passé en retard.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
