Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.
It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.
I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.
Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.
Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.
You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.
Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.
There are some actors that are great stars and storytellers, but not necessarily good actors. I'm talking about some - not all - of the people you see in action flms or blockbusters. They're film stars, though not necessarily great actors. And there are those who are great actors, but not necessarily big film stars. Jim Sturgess is both. He's quite obviously a star, the audience likes him, he's a great storyteller and he turned out to be one of the greatest actors I've worked with as well.
It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.
The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.
You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.
I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.
I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.
