I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.
The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.
I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.
I think one of the luxuries of being a filmmaker is that you can ask questions but not necessarily have to answer them. Certainly, if I was a politician I'd need to come up with some answers.
I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.
Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?
I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.
I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.
I love the idea of people being themselves in films.
If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.
I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
