Quotes about american-director
american-director architecture
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. Joel Coen
american-director hard pin script work
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
american-director written
Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
american-director
You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
american-director bit
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
american-director becomes careers cautionary funny harder hope maybe slow sort
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
american-director character class individual specific talking
You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.
american-director movies remarkably
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.
american-director bring kinds people persona terms
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
american-director people work
People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.
american-director handling
If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.
american-director cage people point raising virtually worked
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
american-director amount amusing certain guess poking
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
american-director
We create monsters and then we can't control them.
american-director approach characters conceiving creations hated love ridiculous
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
american-director beats throwing
I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.
american-director funny people understood
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
american-director change crisis depends facing true
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. Robert Greenwald
american-director building career interested path steady wanders whatever
I don't see my career as this steady building to a point, it's just a path that wanders for me to do whatever I'm interested in doing. Neil LaBute
american-director days future heart love remain simple sustained warming within
I am writing this because I love you, so that sustained within your warming heart our future days remain locked-to this simple message.
american-director banks biggest crooks glorify robbing shares
I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all. Richard Linklater
american-director becomes bit composure controlled maintain next repressed underneath
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene. Jay Roach
american-director spend
But, I don't know, I really don't spend a lot of time, I think what you've got to do is you think about what you're going to do next. Walter Hill
american-director great lots people secrets
But I don't have any great secrets for anybody, you know, I really don't. I don't do anything that lots of other people don't do. John Frankenheimer
american-director biggest earliest influence mad satire terms
But in terms of satire and comedy,our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
american-director comics growing liked watched
I never read comics growing up at all. I liked science-fiction, fantasy, and watched a lot of television, but I never read comics. Bryan Singer
american-director england
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. John Carpenter
american-director falls five four lived miles niagara people
I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away. James Cameron
american-director
I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.
american-director hate taken
If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. Billy Wilder
american-director continue element ongoing people possible screen whenever
If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.
american-director breaks good job learning lucky training work
I had a lot of lucky breaks When I got a job that I had no training in; I just had to get good and work very, very hard, learning what I needed.
american-director love philip
I love Philip Roth, I love all his stuff. Peter Farrelly