His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene.
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.
I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.
I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
I think editors know so much about how to tell a story with pictures, ... It's such an important facet of becoming a film director to know how footage can be controlled and manipulated. Every one of his films betrayed that wonderful beginning he had.
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
We've seen growing awareness of film preservation, yet the deterioration and eventual disappearance of films have not come to an end. There's still a race against the clock to save what we can at some point.
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
If one of the actors from your film is not talking on that screen in the middle of the night, there will be five other actors from five different films talking.