Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. "

Related Quotes:

" In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown. "

" I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. "

" I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver. "

" Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" Cast is everything. "

" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "