I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.
Everyone wants to know what you want to work on and everyone wants to pitch you what they're working on. And that's just part of the process. And hopefully, at some point you find someone of like minds and you make a film.
I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.
One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.
Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.
Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.
I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.
Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.
I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.
When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.
I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.
I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently.
With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film
We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.
Tobin Bell wasn't obligated to do the second Saw film but he wanted to. I think they brought me into this film because there's a first time director, and my reputation is one of an actor who's there for the betterment of the project. I'm not there to better myself. I'm there to bring all my resources to the project to make it as good as it can be. In the end, that makes everyone look good.
I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.
The distinction between East and West is that the Western novel is very organized, it's very logical, there's a logical progression, there's a chronological progression, and there's a safety in that. Whereas if you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.
I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.
I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer. Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong? Those universal questions, I enjoy.
