Film Quotes
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I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like.
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'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!
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I don't think I make genre films. I think studios try to sell films as genres because they know how to do that. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't know what I make. It's sort of a pot roast, all my films.
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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
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I think the tools were always available, for decades and decades, to make your own film and be creative. I don't think people had to wait for YouTube to do this type of small project. YouTube, I think it's great. I have this idiotic satisfaction. And I think there's a bit of that in YouTube. You share, true, but it's centralized, and it's already sort of controlled. I'm more for something that's not a centralized medium. Like doing your own film and screening it yourself. You cannot control people doing that.
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
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It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.
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I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
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Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
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Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.
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I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.
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When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.
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I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
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'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.
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All films are born free and equal.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.
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It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.
