Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.
If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.
My choices in films are spontaneous.
I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.
I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.
Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.
