I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
social media isn’t about “marketing” your church or message; it’s about “connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant.
Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia.
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
