My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.
'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.
I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.
If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.
Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.
Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.
A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.
It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.
George Shapiro: Your material doesn't exactly transfer to film.
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.
