My earliest memories are making little Super 8 films - or watching my brother make stop-motion space spectaculars.
I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
Each production has certain circumstances that will bring you to a certain way of making it. It is not intentional, it is not an artistic decision, the way we make films, it is the way we address to our problems.
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.
Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.
You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.
To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.
I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
