“I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.”
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“I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.”
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“Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.”
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“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”
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“I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.”
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“'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.”
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“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.”
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“'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.”
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“My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.”
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“Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.”
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“If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.”
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“When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.”
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“Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judg...”
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“I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.”
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“I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.”
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“I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.”
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“For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.”
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“I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess...”
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