Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do ….

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy..

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do thes….

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema..

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically..

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies..

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film..

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford..

Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own s….

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set..

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced..

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry..

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money..

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China..

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote that I knew I could….

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his ….

I will shoot on film as long as they make it..

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it..

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else..

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films..

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call..