Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended..

I'd like to do a film which is funny..

With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in..

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive..

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films..

I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, "I used to be in films years ago... .".

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audienc….

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film..

I've always loved film more than theater, and film may be more closely related to making a record because you have that ability to go in and do your ….

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf..

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have ….

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it co….

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood..

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanis….

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning..

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are qu….

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me..

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like..

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' a….

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natur….

Film is not a form, it has forms.