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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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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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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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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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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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
