I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
I like it when a script shows you something new, and you can learn something through the journey of a film rather than being told things you already know.
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
