I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.
