Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.
All films are born free and equal.
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.
Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.
I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.
When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.
I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
I like going on location for films.
Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.
