I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.
I only make storyboards for action scenes. Once you make a storyboard, you don't film; it can be a stiff move.
I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.
When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.
When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.
I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.
What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.
There are all sorts of inventive ways to get your film out there: sometimes via the Internet, sometimes via viral screenings in people's living rooms across the country.
I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.
The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literatu...
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
