One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you’re not that good. You just reached the level here. I don’t ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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I’m basically like, you know, learned pretty quickly the guy who throws the first punch usually wins, so when people gave me a hard time I just punched them.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
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Pigs are filthy animals. I don’t eat filthy animals.
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You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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If I’ve made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I’ve accomplished something.
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You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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