I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
I think it's absolutely fascinating that in Berlin the parliament can discuss actively the role of their soldiers in Afghanistan because is it still possible, literally, for a German soldier to take up arms.
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.
Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
