There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.
Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.
At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
I am a fan of the 'Rocky' films, and 'Rocky 4' is my favourite. I also like 'The Warriors.'
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
