Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.
The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent. Especially with the main title, my job is to convince the audience to take the leap into the film even though their better sense is telling them, "I should put my popcorn down and get the hell outta here"!
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.
I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.
There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.
We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.
I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.
It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect... You know, I'm in.
I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.
I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
