Films Quotes
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I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.
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The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be there for a good amount of time, and then you can't go and do films and things like that.
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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.
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I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
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People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
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I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
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It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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I want to do more sci-fi films. I want to play half-alien, half-illegal alien.
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I have no ambition. I am sure that I should, but... I do films when they are proposed. But I never go and look for them.
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It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
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My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.
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A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.
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I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.
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Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.
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I know that if I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. That, I remember, and I know I have to accept it.
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I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
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To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
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All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
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I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact.
