Film & Theater Quotes

The more you try to be original, the more you are like others.

The allotted function of art is not to make sense of life but to instill a sense of wonder.

Cinema is a medium that can be used to express anything. It can be used to express the most profound thoughts, or the most trivial ones.

I've always been fascinated by the idea of the outsider, the person who doesn't quite fit in.

I like to remember things my own way, not necessarily the way they happened.

The truth is not always beautiful, nor are beautiful words always true.

I'm a firm believer that everybody should be able to tell their own story, and I don't think that should be limited to one race or one gender.

I think the scariest monsters are the ones that are inside us, and we don't even know it.

I don't think I'm a filmmaker that's interested in showing you how good I am. I'm interested in showing you how good the story is.

I think that's what's so interesting about filmmaking: it's this incredibly collaborative art form, but it's also incredibly personal.

I've always been interested in the idea of a family that's not quite right, that's a little bit broken.

Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.

Horror is a very conservative genre. It's about preserving the status quo. Fantasy is about changing the status quo.

I don't like to be told what to do. I'm a bit of a rebel.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

You never truly know a man until you understand what he fears.

I like to make films that are very personal, very intimate, very emotional, and very passionate.

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Thank God I'm an atheist.