I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.
The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.
I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.
My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.
I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.
I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream. - Andy Paula, LifeBeyondNumbers
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
