What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great e….

Films with a message just make me laugh..

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work..

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago..

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood..

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow..

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when..

I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time..

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film..

We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we wer….

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film ….

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting..

In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't ….

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me..

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form..

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time..

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?.

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it..

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily..

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream menta….