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Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'
I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.
My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.
I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.
Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.
It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.
If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.
I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.
Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.
Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
For 'Rakht Charitra,' I had to gain and lose weight. I simultaneously shot the film in three languages - Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.
We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.
When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you for years.
I've proven that I'm not a complete failure. Every film has done well. It's like, "So, okay, when do I get my deal at Warner Bros?
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.
There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.
I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.
What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.
I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
I don't see coming to Kerala as a commercial exercise; it's a human venture. Every film I make, I come here. I am the prodigal son.
I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.
I treasure the dark hours in a theatre. But I don't think that, if a film does not reach the theatre, it is, therefore, not a film.
I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.
The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.