As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart. |
As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception. |
got the point and let me go back the next day. I finished the film much healthier than I had been two weeks before. |
He's becoming a hard guy to get hold of, ... You could see it starting with the Crash reviews. And then Hustle & Flow. I couldn't be happier for him. |
I avoided the phone this morning because this (the DGA nomination) was the one I knew I wouldn't get. When my friend called to tell me, I made him repeat the sentence three times. |
I can't imagine anyone else in that role now. |
I just want to thank people who take big risks in their daily lives when there aren't cameras rolling. I want to dedicate this award to people who stand up for peace and against injustice and intolerance. |
I knew if we did it right it would get under people's skin, and they would react one way or the other. So it doesn't bother me when people say they hate it for this reason or that. It got to them, it made them look at something they would rather not have looked at, so the movie succeeded, at least for me. |
I miss my mother very, very much. |
I was hoping to do something to twist people's point of view just a tiny bit, to make them look at things just a hair differently. |
I was so totally thrilled when the film got the Oscar nominations. Lions Gate had such belief in the film. The release of the director's cut DVD was their way of telling me how much they believed in me and the film. |
I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world. |
I'd only seen him as the hero or the foppish best friend - so I felt predisposed to like him. On the other hand, Granger's character is not particularly attractive at all - 1950s film heroes were supposed to be strong and confident, yet here is this rather tediously weak man, who allows himself to be pushed around by women. |
I'm really thrilled to be doing this. This is something Bobby and I have been passionate about doing for a while. |
It will be fascinating to explore, |