Quotes about american-director
american-director became eight names
When it was narrowed down to eight names and I was called down for an interview, then it became more serious. Things went very fast.
american-director came hopes neither released widely
I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. Terry Zwigoff
american-director david gets literally presenter whereas worked
Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.
american-director people
No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. Stan Brakhage
american-director bodies heal hearts land men time wales weep wept women wounds
Wales is an old land with wounds that weep in hills. They wept before in the bodies of men and in the hearts of women and time will never heal them.
american-director highest human strangest trusts
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
american-director man
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
american-director both highest philosophy point wise
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
american-director avoid men power
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
american-director domestic hostile
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
american-director pull
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. Lana Wachowski
american-director billy contained felt genre heavy level looking noir wilder
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
american-director audiences entire interested movies sort
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
american-director rewrite
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
american-director hopefully project science
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
american-director
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
american-director both work
We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
american-director directors exactly few richard wants
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
american-director genre mess start twist
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
american-director understanding
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
american-director glass
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water? M. Night Shyamalan
american-director came comic filled notebook script thinking
We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from. Andy Wachowski
american-director amount constantly country system tension tremendous
Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Kathryn Bigelow
american-director ongoing purge urge
The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.
american-director fun
We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. Ethan Coen
american-director
We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
american-director talks
I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
american-director concerns incredibly people period
I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate. Neil LaBute
american-director dad loved mom movies three
We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
american-director fun generally giving good men roles script
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
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When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. Joel Coen