Film Quotes
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It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and time. But they don't really change. You're ultimately trying to get the most creativity and time with the money that you have.
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At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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The gremlins are clearly the ones have the most fun in the film, trashing the town, going to the bar, smashing things, etc. It's all gleeful chaos, which makes the movie fun.
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
