I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
I love making fiction films as well as nonfiction ones, and hope to keep challenging myself to make better and better work.
Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.
Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.
Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.
I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.
Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent – no wonder people want it arrested and k...
Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selec...
I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
