Occupation: Film Director Birth: August 28, 1962
People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount..
We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, noth….
Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not w….
I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness..
People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical..
Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that ….
Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way..
The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arg….
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club….
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive..
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box..
I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you beli….
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't mak….
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly ….
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point….
I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone s….
People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong..
It's a very American thing to hide away from death..
In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light..
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes..
Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time..