Structure is the most important component in a successful planting; colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration.
I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.
The brief flashbacks are sun-kissed, summery and optimistic. It's the only place in the movie you will see red, yellow, orange, or any vibrant colors.
Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.
I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.
Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail leaving its trail of the human presence. . . as a snail leaves its slime.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.