You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
Mrs. Geline: I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.
"Stafford": Of course I can speak Farsi! I wish to make a film in Iran.
Jack Horner: We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape.
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
I never like to stick to one media; whether it's a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.
