What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.
Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.
As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
