Its amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.
That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next, and we're inside a culture of people that you have to figure out in many ways. It's a relationship between what you thought might have been the story, and what happens in the 'field.'
To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.
It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.
What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."
Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.
For me, I see filmmaking as art.
I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.
You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.
Be what we make, and not who we are.
My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
