Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.
I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.
I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.
Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
I've never got a part in the same way twice. I've never prepared the same way. I've never experienced the filming the process the same way.
I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.
I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.