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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially. ”
The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face. ”
I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven. ”
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself. ”
I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started. ”
There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them. ”
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. ”
I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary. ”
I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants. ”
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq. ”