Film Quotes
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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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I'm really much more like Phil Potter from the 1979 film Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit from Smokey and the Bandit, and I'm a lot more serious than that.
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Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
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The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.
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I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.
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I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
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All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
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Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
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The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
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The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.
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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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The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?
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During the entire process of making this film I never thought about whom I was making it for. I always thought that the film was for me, but I didn't think of any of that. I just did what I thought I had to do. I didn't think, "This is what children are going to think" or "This is what adults will understand."
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
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I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is planned at all. But one link is with The Deep End, and one link is that I'm making a film later on that revolves around the relationship between an innocent party and a dead body.
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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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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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It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
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I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.
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I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
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Hey, hey, ... No filming after 15 minutes. Get those cameras out of here.
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
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I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.
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We spoke English in the film, which is not difficult for me. I studied English in school and in Spain. I can think in English as well as French, although I think differently in each language. Every French word has a history for me. Each has many inflections and nuances which I must consider before I use it. English is new. I don't worry about the nuances. I go directly to the idea. I try to communicate with the camera without wasting time on the meaning of the words themselves
