If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this again for four years!"That's about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.
Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.
I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.
As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will, but right now it's more into film, television and behind the scenes with writing and producing. I'm still going to keep releasing music for my fans.
I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating a character, especially if you're on film and you're there in a visual way. It sounds obvious, but voicing an animation really focuses you on the way that you're communicating through your voice. It's a very specific ability that you need to be able to have in order to pitch it just right.
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.
A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.
The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
I want to do movies, but I want to do something that's good. I don't want to make any more films until I feel that I'm ready for it. I want to have good work, and a very elegant life. I believe you get what you want.
I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.
I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.
Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.
