The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.
I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.
But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.
We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
Bender: Hey, look, you made the cover of Fortune... again...
Leigh Anne Touhy: Who died and made him Bear Bryant?
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
