I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.
My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.
Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
I would loathe to work on modern films.
I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could get financing, you know? I believe my other films could be better, but right now they're not being made. But they will eventually.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?
It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
I don't think good films have messages.
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.
For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like.
I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.
I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.
When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.
I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
