Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience. "

Related Quotes:

" With 'Pete's Dragon,' Disney was very excited about the movie I wanted to make; they were very supportive of it, and it was a smooth process. I was really surprised by that. "

" Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy. "

" In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection. "

" I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie. "

" When you cut from a long shot to a close shot, you're doing it for a reason, or if you let something stay in long shot for a long take. On the short films, I was teaching myself how to express something personal cinematically, how to use the language of film the best I could. "

" 'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material. "

" I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B. "

" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "

" The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet. "

" In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. "

" So many of my films involve houses or homes that have been abandoned. People trying to get back home. That's an idea that I keep dealing with. "

" I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing. "

" No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play. "

" With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time. "

" I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons. "

" When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult. "

" I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make. "

" I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations. "

" I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha. "

" Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious. "

" You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible. "

" I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity. "

" I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it. "

" At the end of the day on 'Pete's Dragon,' if we didn't nail something, we could come back and pick it up later. I always knew there was a safety net built in that Disney would not let the movie fail. But in this case, with 'A Ghost Story,' it was all on the line. "

" I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore. "

" I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct. "

" I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it. "

" The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new. "