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I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.
I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.
Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.
Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.
It was my brother Rahul Dev who suggested my name for the original film 'Krishna' as he didn't have the dates.
At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.
If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.
Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.
The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!
When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.
My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.
Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.
I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.
If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.
A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.
I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.
I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.
My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.
The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.
When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.
You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
Had there not been the film, my name would not represent somebody that's out there fighting for the environment.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.
Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.