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The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.
All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.
The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together.
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.
The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.
Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.
Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.
I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. Thats the fact.
When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.
Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.
The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.
Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.
I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers.
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.
People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.
We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.
Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.
I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."
I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.
I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.