What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.- Martin Scorsese
There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
I am very phobic about flying, but I am also drawn to it.
I am going to be 60, and I am almost used to myself.
I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.
I think there's only one or two films where I have had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
