Film Quotes
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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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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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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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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I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any 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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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
