Film Quotes
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If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
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I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
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I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.
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Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that they all don't make feel good movies, same as me, and their films are always visually simple but beautiful (and I hope mine are!).
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I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.
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To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
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Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.
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I love that this film Into the Forest has a balance.
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
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When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.
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This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
