Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.
I know that Madonna is not a first-time filmmaker, but I have worked with a lot of first time filmmakers and I have worked with a lot of inexperienced film directors so that never has particularly worried me - I find it quite exciting - but I have never worked with a director who has had so little experience of directing who was so prepared.
Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."
I guess Titanic because it made the most money. No, I`m kidding. I don`t really have a favorite. Maybe Terminator because that was the film that was the first one back when I was essentially a truck driver.
Film and television as a medium has only very recently begun to be taught at the great drama schools in the UK. When I was at drama school in the UK, I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, "We've taught you Anton Chekhov and William Shakespeare, you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial."
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.
If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.
The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.
I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.
I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'
And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.
I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they should be. As an actor you develop how angry you should be. You select how angry you should be. You listen to the other actor and then you react. In film, sometimes the other actor isn't even there. You have to play the scene. What I do is I call on my experience on the stage. I play the scene and I hope that I reach a certain level of integrity because that's what I learned on the stage.
The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face
You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.
I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
