"It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition..."
"It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition and be given the opportunities I've been given."
"It's a briefcase with my laptop, my DSLR, a microphone, my mouse, and rechargeable batteries. I could set up right here and film an episode if I wanted to. And that's how I like to keep it, small and compact, so I can do it anywhere in the world."
"It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by...' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too."
"'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!"
"I don't really mind not being a part of a film - because if there is no part for me, I will never force myself upon a film. I feel like it's just a distraction. If it is not organically incorporated into the story, it just feels like a stupid appearance, like a sort of wink. I hate that."
"I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment."
"I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible."
"Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more."
"To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse."
"Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do."
"When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study."
"If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do."
"I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film."
"Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life."
"Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room."
"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"
"I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it."
"When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material."
"When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding."
"I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time."
"'Deadpool' is a quirky universe, which is all about being outside of the box, unlike a normal superhero film."
"It'll be really cool to do, like, a solo film, a Firefist movie. I don't know if it would happen."
"That's what I love about the film industry: that you meet so many new people, and you can travel the world."
"It would be a really great to do a Marvel film - not even playing a superhero: just being part of that universe would be amazing."
"Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human."
