I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.
I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in.
I love films, I love movies, I love television, I love television series, I love the internet, I love anything that enhances images. But most of all, I love, love movies.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
The power of a good film is to engage you and draw you into its world.
I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
If someone's lying to us, then it's rare that we know that they're lying to us. It's only in bad films that you recognize immediately that an actor's playing in such a way that you can see that he's lying, and that's simply dumb. But to reach that, it requires that you make a film in such a way that a spectator feels compelled to find his own explanation. You want to lead the spectator to find his own interpretation. To ask questions rather than provide all of the answers. Doing that leads to open endings and open dramaturgy.
I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.
I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.
I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.
One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.
If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.
Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.
In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience
It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
