When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Everything can change, but Indian movies will not change much because we're so used to the dance and songs and everything. Even Americans are getting very attracted to all this.
Robert Preston in 'The Last Starfighter' had an aura. It was almost a surreal experience meeting him. He exuded charm, warmth and that movie star magnetism that is impossible to describe.
This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.
People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.
College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!
Actually, when I'm not filming a movie, my beauty approach is really natural - I prefer a bare face that looks really healthy and dewy.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
