I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

I didn't discover how music and film could work together until Jim Jarmusch had me do 'Ghost Dog.'

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

I’m having a vacation and it’s so beautiful and maybe I’ll never get another film idea in my life.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

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