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I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre. Bong Joon-ho

I fear God and respect God and love God. Brett Ratner

Love God Respect Fear Fear God

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. Brett Ratner

Love Heart Ugly Mouth Out Having Count Bigoted Much Your

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous. Brian De Palma

Dangerous Characters Sexy About Had Idea Like Because Always Making Femme Femme Fatale Lot Movie Movies Manipulative Fun

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. Bryan Singer

Respect Better Evil Understanding Complexity Kind Prevent Call Understand Any Just Acknowledgement Means Help Deserve Deserves Necessarily

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. Caleb Deschanel

Life Great Quality Reality Personality Nurturing Understanding Every Intimate Bit Frank Must Photographer Photographers Some Composition Had Lighting Like Most Robert Reveal Makes Diane Subjects Walker Much Really Special

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to. Casey Neistat

Truth Truth Is More Than Fiction Interesting Much Used

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman. Catherine Hardwicke

Life Work Me Woman Construction Homework Faster Out Architect Guys Had Always Up Trained Than Did Being Want Them Then Figure Whole Shown Challenged

Stephenie Meyer said she's ready to move on from 'Twilight,' but you never know. Catherine Hardwicke

You Move On Never Know She Ready Said Move Twilight

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. Christopher Nolan

Negative Projected Look Looks Print Inferior Against Acquired Original Image

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. Chuck Jones

Business Comedy Stringent Very

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth. Chuck Jones

You Mouth Baby Put Like Look His Want Midget

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. Danny Boyle

You People Pride Will Down Rightly Take Loud Shoot Anything

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. Danny Boyle

If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. Darryl F. Zanuck

Time Disagree Job Men Both Then Useless Agree Two

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. David Cronenberg

Reality Illusion Confuse Only Tend

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division. David Furnish

Ignorance Fear Judgment Out Division

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. David Lynch

Better Coffee Bad Like Cup Than Even Actually

I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. David Lynch

Thomas Thomas Edison Like Edison Tesla Fan

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for. David Lynch

Life You Money Looking Detectives Something Like Trail End Right

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