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.
After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.
The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.
An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?'
For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
