Camper Van Beethoven Quotes
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When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.
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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.
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If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.
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I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'
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I certainly did not envisage making a Disney movie. The most I hoped for was to be able to pay my bills. I was not a go-getter. I was very type-B.
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I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what one character is saying. I feel like I'm able to connect on a much more profound level.
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The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie. The connection is so deep and so profound, and it isn't cluttered by humanity.
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I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on.
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I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.
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Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target.
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I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.
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With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life.
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When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
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I'll be on the field about 100 plays a game (this year), ... (But) I'm all about winning, so if they need me to step in and help then I'm going to do it.
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I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
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I'm sentimental to a fault.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.
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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.
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I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease-and-desist letter from them.
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I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.
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When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.
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Hindsight is the most dangerous thing imaginable for me. I imagine that's the case for most filmmakers. And I would love to be a filmmaker who was an exception to that rule, but I'm certainly not.
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I love what Paul Thomas Anderson did with 'The Master' with putting out those teasers made up of footage that's not in the movie.