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There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it
The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.
I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.
I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.
I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.
I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.
There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.
As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.
'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.
It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.
Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.
I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience.
When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.
It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.