Films Quotes
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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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As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.
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My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.
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British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."
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I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.
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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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I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.
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I had two good films: 'ABCD2' and 'Bajirao Mastani.'
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TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.
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I think it's so hypocritical to be so anti-nudity in films, and be so pro-violence. I'd rather see two people making love, than somebody being done in. Or being shot and getting their head blown off.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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I was in awe of Robert Osborne, the man, and his incredible talent. Like everyone else, I loved watching him introduce classic films on TCM. But I was fortunate to also get to know him in real life by spending time with him and being interviewed by him over the years at events around the country.
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I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
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Awards and nominations really help sell films.
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Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.
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I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.
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I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
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My choices in films are spontaneous.
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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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Every time I make a "Mission" movie or other films, people kind of look at me and go, "Well, now what? What's next?" I think there's always going to be another mountain. I think there's something always in store.
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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.
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Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.
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Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.
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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
