It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.
I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.
I'd like to enter in and out of that big budget world, rather than staying in it. It's not the case that the bigger the film, the better it is.
The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.
There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
