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I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.
Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.
I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.
We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.
But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.
A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.
The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.
I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.
We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.
There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.
A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.
Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.