100 Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

People are longing for tribe and community.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

Sci-fi always appealed to me, like, since I was a kid.

Group think and groups in general allow you to more fully give yourself to something other than yourself and your betterment - to feel a sense of belonging. Now is this a good thing? I don't know, but it's something that is longed for, at least by me.

I want to make the iPhone of movies.

I love James Cameron. I love what he does.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

People are frustrated all over the country, whether they're in Oklahoma or Oregon or San Diego or San Francisco or L.A. or D.C. or New York or Omaha or wherever.