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Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.
Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.
In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry.
I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.
I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.
Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.
I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.
One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."
I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.
If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.
Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.
It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.
A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.
I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
That's what I love. I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.