Film Quotes
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I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.
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Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he Quentin Tarantino is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously Quentin is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film Hateful Eight goes to the director of photography.
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I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.
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Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?
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I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.
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From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.
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You should always make it like it's your last film. That's my personal belief. Every filmmaker is going to have another belief... That's the only way I know to try to make a film that might be good. You got to take it real seriously like it's your last thing.
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I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
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In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.
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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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I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.
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I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
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I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.
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I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to New York for 'Afterschool Special' auditions, which led to moving to Los Angeles. I wanted to be an actor. But in L.A., I got into film technology, and I was building cheap editing systems and would edit my friend's acting reels.
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I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.
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Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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Particularly in the final stages I always find that I'm rushed. It's dangerous when you're rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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I'm planning some films in the U.K., and it will have pros and cons. It takes a lot more time to set up a film in the U.K., because you can't rely on much. In Greece, friends show up and bring what they can and you make the film. Well, that's a bit simpler than how it really is. But when you make a film with proper industries, it takes more time to synch all these things.
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I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.
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When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.
