62 Quotes by Panos Cosmatos

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as kind of pop culture artefacts. I'll often make posters and tag lines as I'm working on them, and not just conceive of them as a story I'm going to tell, but as a whole, a piece - a whole object that exists in the pop culture realm.

Certain things just rub me the wrong way.

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.

1984 is such an iconic, loaded year in so many ways.

Well, I'm really interested in the idea of making genre films, but movies have a much more personal undercurrent to them and that look beautiful, and that's sort of the films I'm kind of interested in making.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.