On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego....
I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've...
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like usi...
What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. S...
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual v...
How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or m...
I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
I'm trying to make as many films as I can.
I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.
As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.
Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.
I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.
