I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
'Terminator' is one of my favorite films, and so is 'Terminator 2.' — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does.… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I think that the campaign that Fox Searchlight has thrown for 'Sound of My Voice' honors the film's roots and the film's… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell,' James Ponsoldt's 'The Spectacular Now,' Destin Daniel Cretton's 'Short Term 12' - these are really important movies. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter what someone's hair looks like or if the sound is perfect. Every director who's made a couple of… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there's this real… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture'… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I don't think we set out to make 'The East' in order to necessarily change people's hearts; I don't know how much… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
At AFI, you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year, and I… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
We lived on anarchist farms, squatted in the inner city, and hopped rail cars. We wanted to see how other young people were creating… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
A film set is all about hierarchy, but I always like to think about the circus. In the circus, there's this real sense of… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture' necessarily. I… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
No one dives a dumpster like a rich kid dives a dumpster, because there's no shame. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff that doesn't… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share
