And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>