I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.
It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
Mrs. Geline: I haven't felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.
"Stafford": Of course I can speak Farsi! I wish to make a film in Iran.
Jack Horner: We're about to make film history, right here... on videotape.
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
I never like to stick to one media; whether it's a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.
I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.
In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.
I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
