I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I still knew nothing. I don't think I really ….

Naina is one of the most special films & special characters that I've played in recent times.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay..

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films..

I've always kind of hated films about climate change..

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale..

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film..

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors..

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe..

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man]..

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfort….

It's nice that we have all these different films..

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercia….

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tou….

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film..

The 1960s and 1970s were the real years for independent film, because they were really independent. Plus, there were hundreds of distributors. There ….

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition..

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there..

Film really is a collaborative art..

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple..

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind..