I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.
That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.
My job is — I make socks. That’s all I do. I don’t necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.
There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.
One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.
Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'
I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet
The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.
So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.
I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.
I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'
I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.
At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.
The success of the film should depend on its budget.
My films, no one else will do.
