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The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
It doesn't matter if I am the lead or a man is the lead actor in a film. What really matters to me is that I give my 100 per cent to my job.
I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.
Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.
Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.
For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started getting lead roles in films like 'Bobby Jasoos.'
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.
I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.
I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.
There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.
If there are some people that like the film and some people that do not, that's fine for me, because I do not intend to make very broad films.
Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.
I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.
I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.
Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.
I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.
I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.
Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.
Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.
Film is my favourite without a doubt. I am a film romantic and I love the grandeur of cinema. Dark theatres and big screens are my first love.
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.
In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.
In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.