Richard Kelly Quotes

I`ve seen an awful lot, and I hope I never see it again. You see real suffering from people. It does a number on you.

I don`t ever want to make an impersonal film.

I did a grad film but that ended up hurting me more than it helped. My grad film was this over the top, gonzo, completely absurd sci-fi thing with non- professional actors. When you have actors in their fifties who are still doing student films, you`re not going to get top-of-the-line. It was a thing with a teleportation chamber, with a mad scientist and it was completely absurd. It cost $60,000, but it was completely campy, Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988) kinda stuff, so when people looked at the short, they went, `Well, is this how the acting is going to be in Donnie Darko (2001)? We don`t think you can direct actors if that`s anything to go by.` I was like, `Give me a good actor, and I can direct.` It became really frustrating when the short came up and it gave people a reason to pass. I would recommend that if you want to do a short, then do a short that`s one or two scenes from the feature you want to direct, so they can see it. They really can`t think outside the box. If you want to get a feature made, I would go and scrape together whatever money you can get, find an actor who can really pull off one of the parts and shoot a few scenes from your feature screenplay that can serve as a short. That`s the best evidence that you can give them. That`s what Wes Anderson did with Bottle Rocket, it was originally a short film. And it worked."

We`ve gotten to the point where it has gotten to the consistency, not just one complaint.

(In yet another development, a van believed driven by Furrow contained a book,) War Cycles, Peace Cycles, ... one of the principal ideologues of Christian Identity.

The director`s cut is a lot closer to what premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Then the movie didn`t sell for four months, and all the sudden the movie is STV, going straight to video, and it`s going to debut on the STARZ! Network. ...... at this point I was just desperately trying to salvage the film before they take it away from me and it debuts on the STARZ! Network and my career is over.

I`m very confident on a movie set. I know what I`m doing. I feel like that`s what I`ve been waiting my whole life to do.

Sometimes people get close to him and it explodes through him - though of course it`s not him but Jesus Christ.

He was just a super young fellow,

It feels good to be home, to tell the truth.

I don`t believe there are mobs coming up the street at closing time, ... It is the responsibility of the license holder to control the patrons leaving his establishment.

It seems to not be an isolated incident.

The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.

I was literally losing five pounds per week on the set of Donnie Darko (2001). I was turning into this walking skeleton. I was sort of becoming Donnie Darko"! I started channeling Donnie and Jake (Gyllenhaal), playing Donnie, started channeling me. So it was sort of a subconscious thing going on between director and actor that I can`t even explain".

I am thrilled to have Kevin Smith as both an actor in Southland Tales as well as having his involvement in the prequel graphic novels for Southland Tales. The novels will give the die-hard fans more of an understanding of the back-story leading up the film`s theatrical release.