You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
From Alexander Payne
The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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