Films Quotes
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I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.
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In a way, I feel that we're always connected, maybe you and me, we've been connected - not only now, but before. That's why we've crossed paths. And this manifests beautifully for me in fables, old television, novels in Thailand, but now we try to ignore these themes and stories. That's why now when we make "ghost" films, they have a certain stock quality to their effects, a certain formula, and I miss how it used to be.
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I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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I had two good films: 'ABCD2' and 'Bajirao Mastani.'
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I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.
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I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.
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Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
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It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
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Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. But, so many thing influenced me that aren't science fiction because they were just good drama. I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. I was in love with The English Patient, and movies that are very romantic in nature and have a positive message. That's a large part of my fingerprint.
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What I found interesting in dance is the idea that my work has always been dealing with the nervousness between the human subject as a subject and the human subject as a form. And if you look at my dance films, there are always these cuts between the dancer as a form, the dancer as a subject, and this kind of very harsh treatment of the dancer as someone who's actually drawing with their body.
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
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The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
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Sometimes, you chase the moment and you can never catch it. Films take so long to make that you can never anticipate what the cultural landscape will be when the film enters the world.
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I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.
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My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.
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I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.
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My choices in films are spontaneous.
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I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.
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I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
