The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.
I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.
I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.
The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.
This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
