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Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.
When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.
In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.
I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.
Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.
The amount of time you invest in a film is not directly proportional to its success.
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.
'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].
The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film
When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.
The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.
Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?
I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
Awards are an encouragement. An award is not something we aim at while making a film.
I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.
Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.
Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.
I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.