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I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.
I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.
I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.
I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film
Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.
When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.
I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone.
You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
Each film has its own fate, and you can't go through personal emotions based on the highs and lows of a film.
Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.
Yes, you can do it. You can dream about being on the cover of magazines; you can dream about being in a film.
I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.
Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like.
John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
'Roar' is a film based on the tigers in the Sundarbans. It is the story of a battle between man and the beast.
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.
Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.
I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.