I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.
What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.
Movie without romance feels like food without flavor.
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
I've worked with Filipino technicians, and they are, I think, among the best. I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines, maybe for a vacation or to shoot a movie.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
he loves that movie for about five minutes. Then he gets Hero's Remorse.
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
