James Mangold Quotes

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that point, you're kind of overexceeding yourself.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance.

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really exciting things.

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore.

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.