I don’t want to compare myself to him – I don’t want people to see me as this great genius – but when I see Charlie Chaplin’s movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there’s stuff going on around them, because they can’t think too much about who they’re supposed to be.
I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.
In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
I like actors who don’t have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren’t good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.
If people don’t like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.
And I’m not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.
The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.
I don’t like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.
I don’t like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.
Orange is an underrated color, it’s the second most underrated color after yellow.
I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they’re going to say ‘my way of doing a film is better.’ I’m not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?
When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
In the ’90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.
I love 3D a lot, I have a great interest in 3D, so if I am given the tools to do a project with 3D, it’s a dream for me.
The competition is not really friendly or peaceful. It leads to oppression in some ways.
Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I’m confused about.
I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.
You can’t feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don’t need the scene.