Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.
When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.
The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.
The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.
