There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.
'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.
If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.
One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.
George Shapiro: Your material doesn't exactly transfer to film.
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like.
If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
