I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.
I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.
Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.
And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.
I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.
Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film.
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.
