1. “Part of making any endeavour is that each on has its own special problem. It’s the nature of the process.”
2. “You never know how much time you have left.”
3. “Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
4. “The problem with anger is that it’s so consuming. You’ve got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.”
5. “Music and film are inseparable. The always have been and always will be.”
6. “Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.”
7. “The most important thing is the script.”
8. “Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.”
9. “People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.”
10. “You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.”
11. “Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? “
12. “When I’m making a film, I’m the audience.”
13. “As you grow older, you change.”
14. “I didn’t realize there are generation who do not know about the origins of film.”
15. “I can’t really envision a time when I’m not shooting something.”
16. “There’s a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.”
17. “You’ve got to love something enough to kill it.”
18. “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
19. “I prefer people who don’t get caught and if they do get caught, I prefer people people who don’t give in.”
20. “Always stay open to surprise.”
21. “Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.”
22. “There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.”
23. “Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.”
24. “I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy’s eye’s.”
25. “There’s no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.”
26. “A lot of what I’m obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.”
27. “You’ve got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.”
28. “Death comes in a flash and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film.”
29. “The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance.”
30. “If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we’re basically headed towards holograms.”
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