I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.
Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw ...
When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one ...
[first lines] [Director Peter Jackson opens with the scene that should, logically, end the film: that is, the moments immediately following the murder. The girls Juliet and Pauline run screaming up the hill-path to the tea-house, sobbing and covered ...
I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.
I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
