I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film..

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will….

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really..

If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to practice your art. For the most part, yo….

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art..

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?.

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me..

If a film is good, it will work no matter what..

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film..

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas..

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc..

My current project was shot on film, and because of that I've spent my entire day removing dust-specks from negatives. You wouldn't have to do that o….

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see..

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film..

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film..

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that..

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film..

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience..

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A..

The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it..

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I coul….