Film Quotes
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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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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Film has to describe and show.
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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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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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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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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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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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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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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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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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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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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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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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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
