I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a gr...
I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it ...
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, ne...
I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, t...
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.
It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Ar...
My production company wasn't doing well, so we were not producing films. Over a period of time, we have realized that we are going to produce our own films and make cinema that we like. We've got so much in-house talent, and my kids are going to be c...
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know th...
It used to annoy and frustrate me to have to come in and audition. I would say to my agents, 'Haven't they seen this film and this film and this film? They know what I look like... They must.' Until I directed an episode of 'Roswell.' And all of a su...
I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.
The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.
My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.
The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.
Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry.
Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
