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 movies actually change people’s hearts. We wanted to make something that was thrilling and got you to thinking. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
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. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
I think we’re really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does. It’s so inspiring when high-quality auteurs are writing and directing those movies. That’s pretty cool. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
I don’t want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
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 them with is all the stuff they cannot be in control of. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
You can’t just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide – I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don’t dub Stan Lee’s work that way. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
I don’t understand how our story can be so bonkers, but ‘Captain Marvel’ isn’t. A lot of the ideas in ‘The OA’ that seem outlandish are just normalizing as the years go by. Zal Batmanglij Read Quote
