We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.
I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.
I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
I want my films to get audiences. I am not interested in making them just for myself.
It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.
John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.
A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
