As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
I'm not a big slasher film fan.
All my films are all my children.
I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
I'd love to play a musician in a film.
I love con-men characters in film.
Music in this film is a very important part.
Music is half the film.
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
My films are about embarrassment.
My intention is to do more films.
I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.
Film is a truly magical medium.
Films are always different from books.
Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say: 'There, that is Homo Zapiens.' HZ is simply the ...
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted ...
Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us--this is his metaphysical wager--is real ...
While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to com...
I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really....
