Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours. "
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot. ' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.
Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.