The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.
I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
I just love scary stuff! I'm a huge horror buff.
The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
I'm a big fan of horror, personally.
One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.
The horror of Time is, people don’t snap out of it.
To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.
All in all, I'd like to venture into film. Films are my staple diet, so I would love to be part of a feature film, independent film... it all just depends on the story and the people behind it, really.
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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