The good ideas will survive.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.
I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart.
When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid’s private school and for the three ex-wives, don’t talk to me about your artistry. It’s their job. It’s not my job. It’s my calling.
There’s only one list that’s more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d’Or. It’s the list of directors who didn’t.
I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I’m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.
CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the ’70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They’re really doing it and risking their lives.
One can be inclined to just say, “F this political correctness! I don’t have time for that!”
I was trying to do like a Spaghetti Western but using World War II iconography.
If I’m on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I’m looking for. I’ll sit there and I’ll cry. I think it’s the altitude or something like that.
One thing I don’t understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they’ll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.
I’ve always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
Sure, and that’s the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would’ve been too much for the big screen because actually it would’ve only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.
You don’t have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can’t help but make a good movie.