If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.
I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.
Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.
Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
