I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.
Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.
I think the film you hear about the most is 'The Exorcist.' When people come up to me and say, 'Oh, you scared me!' I was the good guy in that film!
It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
'The Wine of Summer' is a beautiful film about love lost and found, and the complexities of life while discovering who you are. It was filmed primarily in and around Barcelona, and the imagery is breathtaking.
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.
Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
