Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell. "

Related Quotes:

" The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected. "

" I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings. "

" When 'The Godfather' comes on, any time of the day or night, I'm lost because I'm incapable of turning it off. "

" I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices. "

" I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world. "

" If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing. "

" We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen. "

" One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing. "

" The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness. "

" The privilege I've had over 15 movies over a very long time has been to make movies that were ambitious or grown-up, complex, that had themes in them that were sometimes political, sometimes challenging, to make these movies on a scale. "

" I do watch 'It's a Wonderful Life' with my children at Christmas, and I liked it long before it went into the public domain and became a cliche. "

" You can spend an extraordinary amount of time raising independent money to do a movie for very little means. I've done it with 'Pawn Sacrifice.' "

" I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. "

" The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing. "

" I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances. "

" I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them. "

" I'm very promiscuous in my tastes. "

" People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself. "

" I think to see American troops in an American city is, you know, the sum of all of our fears. "

" Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. "

" I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. "

" Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? "

" A lot of superhero sequel movies, they resemble each other greatly. "

" Growing up, movies were something my family and, later, my friends and I would stay up all night talking about. The movies I remember moved me and forced you to think about things that made you know yourself better. "

" Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus. "

" Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world. "

" My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.' "

" I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something. "

" I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas. "

" There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. "