I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.
I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.
The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.
Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.
Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.
I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.
I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.
And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.
That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.
I watch mostly independent films.
Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.
I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.
