When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.
When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.
I've been working in television for so long, since 2004, and I just worked nonstop throughout that time and I've learned so much. I've definitely done that 10,000 hours. I know the format really well and I feel comfortable in it. I'm excited about going into something I'm not so comfortable in, which is film.
I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.
I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.
My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."
You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.
I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.
When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.
The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.
