As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
The superhero is a really popular figure in the West. In Asia or Korea, the young viewers are amused by the figure, but it is not really so sensational.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.
No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?
The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.
