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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.
For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.
Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.
My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out.
At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.
People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience
I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.
I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.
The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.
I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.
My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.
It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.
'Valhalla Rising' is a fusion of my upbringing, basically: everything I grew up loving and wanted to make a film of.
While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.
I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.
I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.
Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.
I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.
I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.
When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.