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I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.
After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
That's what I love about film scoring. Every situation is new. Every show is a new adventure.
A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.
But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.
As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.
I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.
When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.
There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it
You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing
I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.