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The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.
... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.
IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.
We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.
TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
My partners are Gourov Dasgupta and Roshan Balu. Together, we're 'Superbia'. I've already signed some film and non-film assignments.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
Is an audience open to seeing a film that isn't what they expect when they see a film that's been adapted from a children's book?
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.
I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for Dreamworks on that film.
