Avarice, the spur of industry.
The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.
There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
All of a sudden, there are great Japanese films, or great Italian films, or great Australian films. It's usually because there are a number of people that cross-pollinated each other.
I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen 'The Films of Raquel Welch.' It shows a lot of a variety in what they've chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career.
I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.
In every business, in every industry, management does matter.
Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.
