Film Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
