I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.
In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.
I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.
There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.
I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.
'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.
