When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.
Luigi Castigliane: This is the girl! Adam Kesher: Hey, that girl is not in my film! Vincenzo Castiliane: It's no longer your film.
I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.
A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?
So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
