I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.
Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.
Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.
'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just phenomenal and the character of the Joker is beautifully written. He has a particular philosophy that he carries throughout the movie. He has one of the best bad guy schemes.
I can't tell at what age I developed this love towards movies, but I've always enjoyed watching films. I've grown up watching the films of my uncles Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.
I believe there's only good cinema and bad cinema.
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
Black Panther is a great film'. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
Here's the thing about 'Cabin in the Woods.' I did virtually no research on this movie.
The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.
I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.
Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?
I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s I just stopped. I certainly never was an educated moviegover.
I really find comfort in watching film and obtaining knowledge and I use statistics and computer generated stuff to help me get those stats. That was probably a result of my father's influence on me at a young age.
I've been watching some film, understanding what I can work on, what I can get better at.
What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.
I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.
I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.
The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.
I look at films every day. I study. I coach.
'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?
