Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.
You can’t intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it’s going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I don’t do the running commentary as the movie’s playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.
The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say ‘take me or leave me.’
He never gave up. And he does that for us.
I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don’t censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room. I shoot needless footage and then don’t use it later on in the process.
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick’s vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it’s a legacy.
Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home.
I’m not really interested in making money. That’s always come as the result of success, but it’s not been my goal.
You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he’s tested and given a challenge.
I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
The work that I’m proudest of is the work that I’m most afraid of.
Every movie you’re going to forget that it’s 3D whether it’s widescreen or whatever it is, you’re going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn’t work or if the movie generically doesn’t work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.
All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.
Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.