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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
My best actress of all time is Kate Winslet. I want to be just like her. 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' is one of my favourite films.
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
