A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.
As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it.
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies.
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
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.
Matt: [Last line in the film after Matt has killed Richard] "I don't know."
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.
