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'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!
There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.
I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.
I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.
Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.
Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.
I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].
Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.
My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.