I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.
George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.
I love action films. It's my favorite genre.
If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.
As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.
Each one [movie] is very important to us and from a fiscal responsibility, filmmakers understand that it's highly personal for us and they've been great about it.
We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So it was really about getting into business with our partner at Universal.
I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.
Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.
When you're at a film festival, you have a rapt and enthused audience and if you can point them to a Kickstarter campaign, that's a great way to leverage that enthusiasm. Even if you don't need finishing funds, it's a way to get outreach funds.
When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.
It takes such a particular amazing and extraordinary type of personality to become an actor. I love them. You can't do my job without them. I've worked with a lot of film actors and most of them are so, so prepared in their approach because they are used to turning up ready to shoot: you have to have your performance, you have to have your lines, you have to have everything pretty much decided and ready to go whenever everyone else is ready.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.
I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.
While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.
I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
I'd love to do music for films.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.
I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies.
