Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.
For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.
I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.
I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.
Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.
The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.
Sometimes I think I should have stayed longer and I should have done more films.
To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.
I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.
Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.
