Zitat des Tages über Steven Spielberg:
I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.
People always ask us, 'When are you guys gonna do a movie? When are you gonna do a TV show?' And to me, that feels like such a step backwards from where are.
Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.
We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.
The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts.
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.
I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it.
I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
My second wife, the mother of one of my sons, died of murder. I was not with her, but I could have saved her. I think.
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.
I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.
Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.
I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.
Unless it's something very clever like 'Memento,' most independent films have a very tough life out there.
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
I don't believe in defeat.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
One should not evoke violence by acting fearful.
I love collaborating with people.
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.
Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
We're really interested in more visual storytelling, figuring out a way to blend our level of observation with a bigger visual scope.
We've always had a simple philosophy in casting. We don't care if somebody's a big star or a little star. We just want the best possible actor for the part.
As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.
I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
