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I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
I'd grown up loving English films, I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.
One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.
Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
I always feel like every film takes the franchise and hangs it in the balance.
There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.
I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.
I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.
I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.
The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.
I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.
That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.
You know that first of all your films have to make money no matter who you are.
I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.
And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.