The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.
Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
I'm a believer in film school.
Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
I personally like to do independent films.
I'd like to do an independent film.
It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.
I would love to try action films.
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.
[the Middle Of The Film] Lady Presenter: Hello, and welcome to 'The Middle of the Film', the moment where we take a break to invite you, the audience, to join us, the film-makers, in 'Find the Fish'. We're going to show you a scene from another film ...
We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
There can be a lot of waiting around on any film set.
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
