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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
I must admit, strong films are more interesting to me, as, by the end of the day's shooting, you feel good.
There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I have my own ideas when it comes to making cinema. My films should be of my liking and suit my convictions.
I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.
I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
I think every film is like a team game, especially for me. I have always got films which have a strong cast.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.
I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.
You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.
There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.
There are a lot of really good Punjabi films with great content pertaining to family drama, romance, and history.
The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.
Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
I simply love Malayalam films because they do great cinema, and there is a whole lot of effort that goes into it.
I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
I liked the '28 Days Later' films, but they're not zombies; they're not dead. They're not using it in the same way.
If I was lying on the side of the mountain, dying, would I have any regrets? Yeah. I would regret not making films.
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.
I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.
I can do very dramatic films, and at the same time, I can do a very meaningless movie, too, if I feel my role is good.
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.
My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.