I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.
Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma.
It is possible to work out of New York on film and television and still not lose your connection to theater.
Since the first 'Singham,' many films have that kind of action. So we have to work harder to create something new.
When I'm on set filming 'One Tree Hill,' I get up and work out four to five days a week.
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.
I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown away by the spirit of that country.
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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.
