The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.
Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
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.
Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
Johnny: [plugging back in the runway lights] Just kidding.
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
You can't complain about your dressing room or you'll look like Celine Dion.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
