I hate using this term [miracle]. I'm a man of science. I'm a doctor. I don't use this word. But he said, it's a miracle your mom's alive.
Forget the audience, make what you want to see
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it. " It was not an honorable thing to do.
I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.