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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
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.
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.
You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.
If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.
I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.
If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.