Camper Van Beethoven Quotes
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I like roller coasters that have the one 70-foot drop.
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There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
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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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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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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 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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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
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I love communicating non-verbally. I find great value in it.
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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
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I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.
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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
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They were the first to offer, and that's the only place I really wanted to play. For me, I love the city of Boise and I'm really comfortable with the whole staff down there. And what I like most about that program is they win and they win the right way.
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I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.
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I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well.
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I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.
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I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
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You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
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In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.
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Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.
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'Peter Pan' is a beloved property. It's a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a 'Peter Pan' movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.
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I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content.
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The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.