Director Quotes

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.