I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.
We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.
The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes.
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
