The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.
You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"
Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.
I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.
When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.
The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
Well, there's two things I have criteria for doing a film: The script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. I like really strong directors, and so when I do a film, I'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. I relied on Todd Haynes for that.
I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.
It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.
