I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time..

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if yo….

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature fil….

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here..

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film..

I like doing film, you know, single-camera..

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just ….

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Syl….

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films..

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful..

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s..

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me..

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in ….

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary..

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you en….

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image..

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light an….

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very of….

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway..

I never directly think of certain films. I know I am influenced by all the films I see..