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When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.
I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.
When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.
I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.
I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.
My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.
I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.
I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.
There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.
Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.
I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.
I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.
I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.