Zal Batmanglij

It's funny how quickly human beings adapt.

— Zal Batmanglij

I love James Cameron. I love what he does.

— Zal Batmanglij

The art house is an elitist idea.

— Zal Batmanglij

Violence doesn't interest me very much.

— Zal Batmanglij

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

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It's awesome to be part of a gay family.

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I never think the ends justify the means.

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I love being on a movie set.

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I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure.

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

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It's so hard to shoot wealth. It doesn't show up on film.

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I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.

— Zal Batmanglij

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.

— Zal Batmanglij

It's not easy to learn to trust someone and let someone trust you.

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If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.

— Zal Batmanglij

I think the political is personal, and the personal is political.

— Zal Batmanglij

That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.

— Zal Batmanglij

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is…

— Zal Batmanglij

When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and…

— Zal Batmanglij

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

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

I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.

— Zal Batmanglij

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

— Zal Batmanglij

Nobody can seem more politicised and glamorous than the baby-boomers. But their kids are surprisingly robust and late bloomers.

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We entered 'Lucid Grey' into the Georgetown festival on April 27, 2001. Now 'Sound of My Voice' is opening on April 27,…

— Zal Batmanglij

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What…

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I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world…

— Zal Batmanglij

And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future?…

— Zal Batmanglij

'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

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does.…

— Zal Batmanglij

The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses,…

— Zal Batmanglij

What I'm drawn to most as a filmmaker are these tribes that are seen as 'fringe' cultures. We live in a society…

— Zal Batmanglij

It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important…

— Zal Batmanglij

For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most…

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People are longing for tribe and community.

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I want to make the iPhone of movies.

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I'm a gay man of colour.

— Zal Batmanglij

I think 'The East' is political.

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'The East' could easily be a TV show.

— Zal Batmanglij

I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.

— Zal Batmanglij