Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.
I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.
It’s a bad day when you don’t get the work done that you need to get done or you don’t get it done to the satisfaction.
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.
It’s a very American thing to hide away from death.
Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be held responsible for the film, whether good or bad.
I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.
I don’t know how to depict intelligence.
I like characters who don’t change, who don’t learn from their mistakes.
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.
Hollywood is great. I also think it’s stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.
I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
Movies aren’t finished, they’re abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
I have demons you can’t even imagine.
I don’t have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don’t know any better and want to ape the success.