I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
I think that the Western went away for a while because part of its function was that it used to be America's action film.
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.
When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.
But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.
Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
