Filming is repetition and many takes.
We see death constantly on film.
I always wanted to design for films.
There are no great scripts - just great films.
I'd like to do a film which is funny.
My films are larger than life.
I would love to work on a Bond film.
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
This is really a difficult time to be in films.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
I'm very into fantasy films.
Films are like oxygen for me.
I support all Australian films.
This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.
A brick could be used in the back part of a director’s last name, to make an epic space odyssey.
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?
