I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
