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Every film that you make has to have a scene that is the heart that blood flows through in every other scene. That scene doesn't always have to be in the beginning of the film. But it can also be at the end, or in the middle, and that can sometimes make the film more effective.
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The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.
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Coming to Hollywood, you always hear the horror stories, but I had good people around me who maybe didn't understand what I was doing but always protected me.
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I'm not the greatest filmmaker. There are a lot of better filmmakers than me.
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Whenever I make a movie, I always try to figure out what kind of music it would be.
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I always approach every film I make as if it was going to be the last. So if I'm going to go out, I'm going out with a bang.
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When I was 20 years old, my uncle was an arthouse distributor, and he would take me to Cannes every year to work as a film scout.
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We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important.
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The most creative phase of a film is in shooting, because structure is the defining element of that phase.
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There are wonderful artists who deal in the fashion world only, and you see by their creations that they are changing our understanding of sexuality and freedom and gender-bending.
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I'm not a guy's guy. I always loved girl things. I loved dolls. I loved dressing up and much more.
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The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.
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Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years. It's the one stock that's never gone down, the one stock that's never gone out of fashion.
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America has no one to catch you when you fall. That makes you want to achieve. It is healthy for the soul. But all that is valued is success.
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I know how terrifying L.A. can be, because I've been there as a failure. After 'Drive,' it was the most marvellous place in the universe.
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I'm glamour. I'm vulgarity. I'm scandal. I'm gossip. I'm the future. I'm the counter culture. I'm commercial reality. I'm artistic singularity.
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I wanted to be famous. I guess I thought acting would make me famous.
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For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it afterward.
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The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.
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I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.
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There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.
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'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.
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I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful, which is different parameters, then you're also happy.
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I base everything on my instinctual approach. There's something very satisfying in that creativity, and it's a bit like an infant drawing.
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As long as your movies don't lose money, you'll always be able to make them.
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It's hard to always challenge yourself, coming up with new ways to make your life difficult, so when you make something, it becomes more interesting.
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My mother and stepfather were documentary filmmakers and, of course, had a very healthy Scandinavian mentality. When it came to cinema, my mother was very obsessed with the French New Wave. That was her generation.
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For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.
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I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.
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Oh, I love L.A. It's not so much about Hollywood. I love everything in L.A.
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I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.
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I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.
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I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.
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Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.
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The 'Neon Demon' is very much designed to be like a YouTube movie. It's designed to be chopped up. You can cut it up into seven or eight pieces and they're, like, vignettes.
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I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.
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