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I'm really into the way sound works in film, and I did a little bit of sound design for theater in college.
As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.
'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.
My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.
I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.
Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.
A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
'ABCD...' was a dance movie, but it had an emotional story, and now 'ABCD 2' is a very emotional film, too.
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.
I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.
I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.
I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.
Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.
If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.
I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.