I don't put any pressure on myself in terms of what people or fans do or don't want. It really just doesn't occur to me. I honestly just want to make the films I want to see as a fan. The film will survive or fail in my mind by how much I like it. Ha...
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever....
Ray: What are they doing over there? They're filming something. They're filming midgets! Ken: Ray... [Ray runs off and watches Jimmy being instructed by the director, who Jimmy flicks off as soon as he leaves] Ken: Ray, come on. Let's go. Ray: My ars...
One of the reasons I did 'Louie Bluie' and 'Crumb' with Criterion was because I like a lot of their older French films. That's the only reason. I watch these films by Jacques Becker and Jean-Pierre Melville. 'Touchez Pas Au Grisbi,' stuff like that. ...
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.
I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.
All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all.
The film 'Slumdog Millionaire' portrays the spirit you feel in India. For those who haven't been there, the film says it all.
