I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
