Als Mann eine Frau zu verstehen, ist genauso unmöglich, wie als Frau einen Mann zu verstehen. Deswegen haben wir doch die ganzen Probleme.
Ich bin überzeugt, dass ich meinen Erfolg drei Dingen verdanke: Glück, Talent und Lockerheit.
Deswegen sag ich 'hey', let's stay together and let's not vote for the FDP!
Schönheit kommt von innen. Hübsch ist relativ. Das Wichtigste ist ein gutes Herz.
Ich fühle mich immer noch wie ein Junge. Ich glaube an die Theorie, dass jeder mit einem bestimmten Alter auf die Welt kommt und dieses Alter behält. Ich fühle mich wie Ende zwanzig.
Dieses Method Acting ist der größte Brim-Bam-Borium-Schwachsinn.
Deutsches Gutmenschentum kotzt mich an.
Manchmal lasse ich es schon ganz schön krachen. Aber das gehört dazu. Ab und zu muss ein Mann eben mal Dampf ablassen.
this is what life is about...meet new people and realize with whom you wanna hang out in the future
Ich habs probiert, aber selbst wenn man versucht sich nicht aufzuregen und statt dessen versucht gewisse Menschen zu erreichen... immer der gleiche Müll....also entweder ich poste jetzt nur noch Tiervideos oder ich halt die Klappe....hhmnnn.... oder doch nicht
Mal nebenbei was fast schon unwichtiges....Honig im Kopf hat vorgestern die 7 Millionenmarke geknackt...7020000 Besucher bis jetzt....!!!! DANKE...!!!!
Mal was anderes: Ein DEUTSCHER Bub mit einer WEISSEN Katze... einer spanischen sogenannten Migrantenkatze....
Wien. Sage und schreibe 3!!! Romys fuer Honig im Kopf! Beste Regie, beste Produktion und bester Hauptdarsteller!Glückwunsch, Didi!!!
hier entsteht gerade- mit meiner fachmännischen expertise- ein neuer off-road track beim circuit mallorca
Zu Fasching durften wir nie Cowboys sein, sondern mussten als Indianer rumlaufen, was wir ziemlich scheiße fanden. Waffen waren total verpönt.
Glaubt an das, an was ihr glaubt. Das Geilste, was man machen kann in seinem Leben, ist an das zu glauben, was man möchte.
Drei Tote in den ersten Minuten, das ist eine Revolution. Ich als Zuschauer will so etwas sehen.
Ich stehe morgens auf, und der Tag ist mein Freund.
Samstag, 19. Dezember 2015
Happy Birthday Robert Urich!
There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that.
I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.
Series work is just grueling.
I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
While there's time left, I want to do different kinds of things.
A healthy outside starts from the inside.
I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.
I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.
Series work is just grueling.
Happy Birthday Rudi Carrell!
Ich werde noch lange als Wiederholung weiterleben.
Kondome sind in Bayern verboten, das wissen sie - wegen des Vermummungsverbots.
Deutschland hat mir zehnmal mehr gegeben, als ich mir je erhofft habe. Ich verdanke diesem wunderbaren Land mein Leben.
Die Wirtschaftskrise ist die Rettung des Showgeschäfts, der Wohlfahrtsstaat sein Untergang.
Ich habe meinen Kindern gesagt, dass ich keine öffentliche Beerdigung will. Aus Angst vor den Jacob Sisters! Mit ihren komischen Pudeln zerstören sie doch jede Atmosphäre.
Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit "Guten Abend" an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, daß es kein guter Abend ist.
Wenn ich mich an jemandem rächen will, dann nehme ich ihm die Radkappe ab und tue ein Steinchen hinein.
Das Fernsehen ist kaputt.
Aber mich reizt auch das große Familienprogramm nicht mehr, denn es gibt die Familie nicht mehr, die Samstagabend geschlossen vorm Fernseher sitzt.
Verabreden Sie sich im Herbst mit einer jungen Dame niemals unter einem Baum. Es könnte sein, daß man Sie unter dem fallenden Laub nicht mehr findet.
Ich stelle mir mein Publikum immer so vor, wie es ist: nämlich im Wohnzimmer.
Ein Fußballstar rächt sich an der Presse, indem er abhaut. Ein Showmaster rächt sich an der Presse, indem er bleibt.
Die Leute, die eine Rolle in meinem Leben gespielt haben, die mir wichtig waren, von denen sind die meisten gestorben.
Wenn Becker jetzt auch noch 40 Millionen Steuer nachzahlen muß, dann bekommt das Wort Tennisarm eine völlig neue Bedeutung.
Durch die hohen Bezinpreise ändert sich so manches. Jetzt kann man Frauen nicht mehr mit dem Satz beeindrucken: Ich habe einen Ferrari, sondern mit: Ich habe meinen Ferrari vollgetankt.
Anke Engelke wird mit ihrer "Late Night"-Show einen Flop landen.
Wenn das bei der Goldenen Kamera mein letzter Auftritt war, dann kann man sich keinen schöneren Abschied vorstellen.
Wenn eine Frau so tut, als interessiere sie sich für die Ansichten eines Mannes, will sie bloß seine Absichten herausbekommen.
Mit dieser Stimme kann man in Deutschland immer noch Superstar werden.
Heute tanzen die Leute soweit auseinander: der Mann in einem Lokal, die Frau in einem anderen.
In 22 Toiletten im Bundestag wurde Koks gefunden. Die Putzfrau ist sofort zurückgetreten.
Witze kann man nur dann aus dem Ärmel schütteln, wenn man sie vorher hineingesteckt hat.
Wenn jemand das Bundesverdienstkreuz verdient, dann bin ich es, denn ich habe gezeigt, dass die Deutschen Humor haben.
Der Konzern Disney hat Thomas Gottschalk als großen Ideen-Mann gekauft. Aber wann hat er schon mal selber eine große und gute Idee für eine neue Sendung gehabt? Ich verstehe gar nicht, was Disney mit ihm anfangen will.
Dass ich überhaupt hier auf der Bühne stehe, verdanke ich meiner Krankenkasse, dem Klinikum Bremen-Ost und der Pharmaindustrie.
Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit 'Guten Abend' an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, dass es kein guter Abend ist.
Keiner ist so publikumsnah wie ich.
Ich bin nach jeder Show in einer Stimmung, daß jede Frau, die sich mir auf zehn Meter nähert, automatisch schwanger wird.
Als ich nach Deutschland kam, sprach ich nur Englisch - aber weil die deutsche Sprache inzwischen so viele englische Wörter hat, spreche ich jetzt fließend Deutsch!
Kondome sind in Bayern verboten, das wissen sie - wegen des Vermummungsverbots.
Deutschland hat mir zehnmal mehr gegeben, als ich mir je erhofft habe. Ich verdanke diesem wunderbaren Land mein Leben.
Die Wirtschaftskrise ist die Rettung des Showgeschäfts, der Wohlfahrtsstaat sein Untergang.
Ich habe meinen Kindern gesagt, dass ich keine öffentliche Beerdigung will. Aus Angst vor den Jacob Sisters! Mit ihren komischen Pudeln zerstören sie doch jede Atmosphäre.
Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit "Guten Abend" an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, daß es kein guter Abend ist.
Wenn ich mich an jemandem rächen will, dann nehme ich ihm die Radkappe ab und tue ein Steinchen hinein.
Das Fernsehen ist kaputt.
Aber mich reizt auch das große Familienprogramm nicht mehr, denn es gibt die Familie nicht mehr, die Samstagabend geschlossen vorm Fernseher sitzt.
Verabreden Sie sich im Herbst mit einer jungen Dame niemals unter einem Baum. Es könnte sein, daß man Sie unter dem fallenden Laub nicht mehr findet.
Ich stelle mir mein Publikum immer so vor, wie es ist: nämlich im Wohnzimmer.
Ein Fußballstar rächt sich an der Presse, indem er abhaut. Ein Showmaster rächt sich an der Presse, indem er bleibt.
Die Leute, die eine Rolle in meinem Leben gespielt haben, die mir wichtig waren, von denen sind die meisten gestorben.
Wenn Becker jetzt auch noch 40 Millionen Steuer nachzahlen muß, dann bekommt das Wort Tennisarm eine völlig neue Bedeutung.
Durch die hohen Bezinpreise ändert sich so manches. Jetzt kann man Frauen nicht mehr mit dem Satz beeindrucken: Ich habe einen Ferrari, sondern mit: Ich habe meinen Ferrari vollgetankt.
Anke Engelke wird mit ihrer "Late Night"-Show einen Flop landen.
Wenn das bei der Goldenen Kamera mein letzter Auftritt war, dann kann man sich keinen schöneren Abschied vorstellen.
Wenn eine Frau so tut, als interessiere sie sich für die Ansichten eines Mannes, will sie bloß seine Absichten herausbekommen.
Mit dieser Stimme kann man in Deutschland immer noch Superstar werden.
Heute tanzen die Leute soweit auseinander: der Mann in einem Lokal, die Frau in einem anderen.
In 22 Toiletten im Bundestag wurde Koks gefunden. Die Putzfrau ist sofort zurückgetreten.
Witze kann man nur dann aus dem Ärmel schütteln, wenn man sie vorher hineingesteckt hat.
Wenn jemand das Bundesverdienstkreuz verdient, dann bin ich es, denn ich habe gezeigt, dass die Deutschen Humor haben.
Der Konzern Disney hat Thomas Gottschalk als großen Ideen-Mann gekauft. Aber wann hat er schon mal selber eine große und gute Idee für eine neue Sendung gehabt? Ich verstehe gar nicht, was Disney mit ihm anfangen will.
Dass ich überhaupt hier auf der Bühne stehe, verdanke ich meiner Krankenkasse, dem Klinikum Bremen-Ost und der Pharmaindustrie.
Nachrichtensprecher fangen stets mit 'Guten Abend' an und brauchen dann 15 Minuten, um zu erklären, dass es kein guter Abend ist.
Keiner ist so publikumsnah wie ich.
Ich bin nach jeder Show in einer Stimmung, daß jede Frau, die sich mir auf zehn Meter nähert, automatisch schwanger wird.
Als ich nach Deutschland kam, sprach ich nur Englisch - aber weil die deutsche Sprache inzwischen so viele englische Wörter hat, spreche ich jetzt fließend Deutsch!
Happy Birthday Alyssa Milano!
I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.
If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.
If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.
I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.
Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.
Be present and in the moment.
People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.
Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
There is nothing like seeing the man you love with your child.
Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.
I take vitamins. I workout every day.
A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.
Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
If you come from a solid family structure, it doesn't matter what you go through in your life. You're going to be okay.
If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.
I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.
Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.
Be present and in the moment.
People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.
Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
There is nothing like seeing the man you love with your child.
Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.
The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride.
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.
I take vitamins. I workout every day.
A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.
I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.
Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.
I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
Freitag, 18. Dezember 2015
Happy Birthday Steven Spielberg!
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
Das schöne an Kindern ist, das sie in ihrer eigenen Fantasiewelt leben und nicht von der Gesellschaft korrumpiert worden sind. Sie haben noch keine Grenzen in ihrem Denken und sind frei, bevor es ihnen in der Schule durch strukturiertes Lernen genommen wird.
My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
Ich verdiene meinen Lebensunterhalt mit Träumen.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
Kino ist ein Vorwand, sein eigenes Leben ein paar Stunden lang zu verlassen.
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
Meine besten Filme kommen noch.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Jeder Krieg ist obszön.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
Kino, das ist das Leben was uns umgibt. Nur besser.
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
Selbstverstümmelung ist der einzige Weg zur Erleuchtung!
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
So wie es nie wieder einen Fred Astaire oder Chuck Berry oder Elvis Presley geben wird, so wird es nie jemanden vergleichbar mit Michael Jackson geben.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
Was gestern war, interessiert Amerika nicht. Wir stürzen uns kopfüber in die Zukunft und schauen nie zurück.
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
Meiner Meinung nach sind die besten Filme vor 1960 entstanden.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vermutlich das wichtigste Ereignis dieses Jahrhunderts, weil sein Ausgang darüber entschieden hat, wie die Welt sich entwickelt, ob sie überhaupt das 21. Jahrhundert erreicht.
I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Alfred Hitchcock hat Spannung zu einer so hohen Kunstform erhoben wie niemand anderes aus seiner oder irgendeiner anderen Generation.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
Das Kino ist der Ausdruck unserer Träume. Genau das ist das Kino: die Möglichkeit, unsere Träume zu übersetzen.
In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
Wo ein Wille und ein dickes Bankkonto sind, da ist auch ein Weg.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Das schöne an Kindern ist, das sie in ihrer eigenen Fantasiewelt leben und nicht von der Gesellschaft korrumpiert worden sind. Sie haben noch keine Grenzen in ihrem Denken und sind frei, bevor es ihnen in der Schule durch strukturiertes Lernen genommen wird.
People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.
Beim Film gehen viele Sterne schon unter, bevor sie aufgegangen sind.
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.
You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.
You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.
The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
I've always been interested in UFOs.
Lincoln believed in the American people.
I'm not really interested in making money.
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.
I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
I am a very impatient director.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
I dream for a living.
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Das schöne an Kindern ist, das sie in ihrer eigenen Fantasiewelt leben und nicht von der Gesellschaft korrumpiert worden sind. Sie haben noch keine Grenzen in ihrem Denken und sind frei, bevor es ihnen in der Schule durch strukturiertes Lernen genommen wird.
My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.
Ich verdiene meinen Lebensunterhalt mit Träumen.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
Kino ist ein Vorwand, sein eigenes Leben ein paar Stunden lang zu verlassen.
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
Meine besten Filme kommen noch.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Jeder Krieg ist obszön.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
Kino, das ist das Leben was uns umgibt. Nur besser.
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
Selbstverstümmelung ist der einzige Weg zur Erleuchtung!
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
So wie es nie wieder einen Fred Astaire oder Chuck Berry oder Elvis Presley geben wird, so wird es nie jemanden vergleichbar mit Michael Jackson geben.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
Was gestern war, interessiert Amerika nicht. Wir stürzen uns kopfüber in die Zukunft und schauen nie zurück.
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
Meiner Meinung nach sind die besten Filme vor 1960 entstanden.
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist vermutlich das wichtigste Ereignis dieses Jahrhunderts, weil sein Ausgang darüber entschieden hat, wie die Welt sich entwickelt, ob sie überhaupt das 21. Jahrhundert erreicht.
I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Alfred Hitchcock hat Spannung zu einer so hohen Kunstform erhoben wie niemand anderes aus seiner oder irgendeiner anderen Generation.
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
Das Kino ist der Ausdruck unserer Träume. Genau das ist das Kino: die Möglichkeit, unsere Träume zu übersetzen.
In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
Wo ein Wille und ein dickes Bankkonto sind, da ist auch ein Weg.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Das schöne an Kindern ist, das sie in ihrer eigenen Fantasiewelt leben und nicht von der Gesellschaft korrumpiert worden sind. Sie haben noch keine Grenzen in ihrem Denken und sind frei, bevor es ihnen in der Schule durch strukturiertes Lernen genommen wird.
People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times.
Beim Film gehen viele Sterne schon unter, bevor sie aufgegangen sind.
I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.
I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.
From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.
I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.
You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.
You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.
The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.
A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.
Money to me is not a factor in my life.
My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.
The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
I've always been interested in UFOs.
Lincoln believed in the American people.
I'm not really interested in making money.
If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true.
I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
I am a very impatient director.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.
Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
I dream for a living.
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Happy Birthday Brad Pitt!
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
Meine Frau ist die Heimat, die ich mir immer gewünscht habe.
I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
Ich will meine Zeit nicht länger verschwenden, sondern sie mit den Leuten, die ich liebe, verbringen.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Stille soll man nicht mit Unsinn füllen.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
Ich mußte mit Rauchen aufhören. Zuerst vermißte ich die Zigaretten wirklich. Der Entzug war so hart, daß ich bereit war zu töten.
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
Was mich an der Schauspielerei frustriert, ist, dass ihr nicht gelingt, was die Musik kann: Gefühle nicht nur zu reproduzieren, sondern neue zu schaffen.
I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.
Männer werden im nächsten Jahr kurze Röcke tragen, das prophezeie ich.
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
My life has been about big changes.
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.
I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.
One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.
Meine Frau ist die Heimat, die ich mir immer gewünscht habe.
I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
Ich will meine Zeit nicht länger verschwenden, sondern sie mit den Leuten, die ich liebe, verbringen.
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Stille soll man nicht mit Unsinn füllen.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
Ich mußte mit Rauchen aufhören. Zuerst vermißte ich die Zigaretten wirklich. Der Entzug war so hart, daß ich bereit war zu töten.
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
Was mich an der Schauspielerei frustriert, ist, dass ihr nicht gelingt, was die Musik kann: Gefühle nicht nur zu reproduzieren, sondern neue zu schaffen.
I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.
Männer werden im nächsten Jahr kurze Röcke tragen, das prophezeie ich.
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.
My life has been about big changes.
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.
My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.
When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.
What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.
My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.
I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.
By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.
America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.
I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.
I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big. I wanted there to be chaos in the house.
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.
One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.
Happy Birthday Armin Mueller-Stahl!
Ich habe gelernt, und danach lebe ich: Haare auf dem Kopf sind schön, auf den Zähnen sind sie wichtiger.
Das ist doch alles relativ. Was wird denn in hundert Jahren bleiben? Ich glaube, es gibt viele Leute, die sich irren, denn unser Rucksack ist längst voll. Mozart, Shakespeare – die werden bleiben. Aber ein Günter Grass etwa? Thomas Mann lebt zum Beispiel nur wieder auf, weil wir jetzt diesen Film drehen. Ansonsten drohte er in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Allerdings bin ich mir nicht sicher, wer am Schluss in den Geschichtsbüchern die wichtigere Stellung einnehmen wird: Mann als grosser Antipode zu Hitler oder Mann als Autor.
Vergänglichkeit ist die Basis unseres Lebens.
Nicht alles ist ein Zeugnis der Armut, manches ist auch ein Armutszeugnis.
Ich fürchte, daß mein Tod nicht bemerkt wird, außer durch meine zurückgelassene Unordnung.
Die Qualität von Menschen zählt man nicht nach ihren Freunden, sondern nach ihren Feinden. Feinde muß man sich verdienen, sie fallen niemandem in den Schoß.
Meine Tante antwortete mir neulich auf die Frage, ob sie Angst vor dem Tode habe: "Nein, nein - nur ein bißchen Reisefieber!"
Glück ist ein flüchtiges Gut, das man im Augenblick erfährt, kein Zustand für die Ewigkeit.
Im deutschen Fernsehen ist doch einfach alles auf den Kopf gestellt. Alle, die sich durch Nichtgeschmack ausgewiesen haben, bekommen die besten Sendezeiten.
Ich liebe an Amerika die Weite, die Großzügigkeit, die Freundlichkeit und auch, trotz mancher Ausnahmen, die Toleranz.
Malen ist wie Fliegen.
Hätte ich keine Feinde und keine Neider, dann wäre ich eigentlich schlecht.
Die einzigen Momente, in denen ich wirklich fliegen kann, sind, wenn ich im Atelier male. Die Musik und die Malerei haben verwandte Seelen, sie helfen sich gegenseitig, Grenzen zu überschreiten. Damit meine ich aber nicht verkitschte Natur und Schnulzengedöns.
Die Kunst muss immer gutmachen, was die Politiker versauen. […] Wenn Politiker die Gräben aufreißen, müssen wir die Brücken bauen. […] Politikern sei zu wenig bewusst, wie viel Kunst für die Völkerverständigung tun könne. Politiker sagen: Was wollt ihr schon mit Musik oder Filmen ausrichten? Das ist doch nur ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein.
Wenn es tatsächlich um Kunst geht, können hohe Preise gerechtfertigt sein. Aber neulich habe ich ein Bild gesehen, da zeichnet einer mit dem Bleistift Kreise, einfach Kreise, nach links rum und nach rechts rum. Zehn Millionen Dollar kostet dieses Bild, einfach weil da ein Name kreiert worden ist. Da fasse ich mich doch an den Kopf. Mein Inneres ist nicht berührt, wie Kaffeesatz bleibt das liegen. Was soll das? Es hat nichts mit Kunst zu tun. Es hat auch nichts mit Schönheit oder Hässlichkeit zu tun.
Wer immer nur funktioniert, entzieht sich dem Abenteuer des Lebens.
Der Strich macht meistens Kunst konkret und die Farben machen die Kunst häufig abstrakt, jedenfalls bei mir. Ich nenne das immer den organisierten Zufall. Das merken Sie, wenn Sie viel Wasser bei Wasserfarben und auch bei Acryl benutzen. Dann laufen die Farben ineinander und haben plötzlich ihr Eigenleben. Und Sie sind überrascht, was da geschieht und sagen: 'Das habe ich nicht gewusst, aber es ist eigentlich viel schöner als das, was ich gewollt hatte." Die Kraft des Zufalls spielt häufig - nicht immer - eine Rolle.
Nee, ich würde sagen: Ich habe acht oder zehn außergewöhnliche Filme gemacht.
Das ist doch alles relativ. Was wird denn in hundert Jahren bleiben? Ich glaube, es gibt viele Leute, die sich irren, denn unser Rucksack ist längst voll. Mozart, Shakespeare – die werden bleiben. Aber ein Günter Grass etwa? Thomas Mann lebt zum Beispiel nur wieder auf, weil wir jetzt diesen Film drehen. Ansonsten drohte er in Vergessenheit zu geraten. Allerdings bin ich mir nicht sicher, wer am Schluss in den Geschichtsbüchern die wichtigere Stellung einnehmen wird: Mann als grosser Antipode zu Hitler oder Mann als Autor.
Vergänglichkeit ist die Basis unseres Lebens.
Nicht alles ist ein Zeugnis der Armut, manches ist auch ein Armutszeugnis.
Ich fürchte, daß mein Tod nicht bemerkt wird, außer durch meine zurückgelassene Unordnung.
Die Qualität von Menschen zählt man nicht nach ihren Freunden, sondern nach ihren Feinden. Feinde muß man sich verdienen, sie fallen niemandem in den Schoß.
Meine Tante antwortete mir neulich auf die Frage, ob sie Angst vor dem Tode habe: "Nein, nein - nur ein bißchen Reisefieber!"
Glück ist ein flüchtiges Gut, das man im Augenblick erfährt, kein Zustand für die Ewigkeit.
Im deutschen Fernsehen ist doch einfach alles auf den Kopf gestellt. Alle, die sich durch Nichtgeschmack ausgewiesen haben, bekommen die besten Sendezeiten.
Ich liebe an Amerika die Weite, die Großzügigkeit, die Freundlichkeit und auch, trotz mancher Ausnahmen, die Toleranz.
Malen ist wie Fliegen.
Hätte ich keine Feinde und keine Neider, dann wäre ich eigentlich schlecht.
Die einzigen Momente, in denen ich wirklich fliegen kann, sind, wenn ich im Atelier male. Die Musik und die Malerei haben verwandte Seelen, sie helfen sich gegenseitig, Grenzen zu überschreiten. Damit meine ich aber nicht verkitschte Natur und Schnulzengedöns.
Die Kunst muss immer gutmachen, was die Politiker versauen. […] Wenn Politiker die Gräben aufreißen, müssen wir die Brücken bauen. […] Politikern sei zu wenig bewusst, wie viel Kunst für die Völkerverständigung tun könne. Politiker sagen: Was wollt ihr schon mit Musik oder Filmen ausrichten? Das ist doch nur ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein.
Wenn es tatsächlich um Kunst geht, können hohe Preise gerechtfertigt sein. Aber neulich habe ich ein Bild gesehen, da zeichnet einer mit dem Bleistift Kreise, einfach Kreise, nach links rum und nach rechts rum. Zehn Millionen Dollar kostet dieses Bild, einfach weil da ein Name kreiert worden ist. Da fasse ich mich doch an den Kopf. Mein Inneres ist nicht berührt, wie Kaffeesatz bleibt das liegen. Was soll das? Es hat nichts mit Kunst zu tun. Es hat auch nichts mit Schönheit oder Hässlichkeit zu tun.
Wer immer nur funktioniert, entzieht sich dem Abenteuer des Lebens.
Der Strich macht meistens Kunst konkret und die Farben machen die Kunst häufig abstrakt, jedenfalls bei mir. Ich nenne das immer den organisierten Zufall. Das merken Sie, wenn Sie viel Wasser bei Wasserfarben und auch bei Acryl benutzen. Dann laufen die Farben ineinander und haben plötzlich ihr Eigenleben. Und Sie sind überrascht, was da geschieht und sagen: 'Das habe ich nicht gewusst, aber es ist eigentlich viel schöner als das, was ich gewollt hatte." Die Kraft des Zufalls spielt häufig - nicht immer - eine Rolle.
Nee, ich würde sagen: Ich habe acht oder zehn außergewöhnliche Filme gemacht.
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