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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.
I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.
I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.
When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.
'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
Earlier I used to be scared of ghosts. Now, after having done so many paei films, I start thinking to myself 'Naaney Pei.'
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
I am a huge fan of Shah Rukh Khan; I have not missed any of his films since I got hooked to 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.'
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
'Flip' is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called 'Massage,' along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.
The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.
I have realised that I am not cut out for the regular, commercial potboilers. I know I don't have it in me to do such films.
People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate.
In Bengali films, since I also write the lyrics, there are certain songs, which I get emotionally and personally attached to.
With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.
My personal opinion is that an actor shouldn't bother himself about expanding his market. He or she should just do good films.
Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
I've been in this industry for nine years and I've done a fair share of films, but it's not been rewarding enough for me so far.
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.
As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.
My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.
I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?
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.
My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
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.
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.