Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.
A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
I don't want a Hollywood career. It's wonderful to have the possibility in your life just to win a role in a Clint Eastwood film, and you are the happiest person in the world.
Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.
