Film Quotes
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There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.
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I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.
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If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.
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I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
