A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched.
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.
I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.
I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.
My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
Rancho: [Repeatedly said throughout the movie] Aal izz well
[Jimmy shows up wearing a ridiculous costume] Jimmy: It's for the goddamn movie.
The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.
'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.
