In Hollywood, ‘under development’ means ‘all I have is the title.’
If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
Are vampires kinky? I didn’t know.
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
My motto: ‘No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.’
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
James Cameron’s films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
It’s the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
It’s rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, ‘To hell with the consequences.’
It’s easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
The right really dominates radio, and it’s amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn’t. They want to shut other people up. They really don’t understand the First Amendment.
I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.