I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
The best I can do is to make a film every two years.
We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.
If it were all in the script, why make the film?
I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
In any film there's always a historical implication.
I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
No two directors make the same film the same way.
Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.
I don't approach films purely in context of genre.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
I feel old films should not be remade.
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.
It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.
