The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
'Coco' is shaping up to be one of the most beautiful films we've made.
I don't think that this movie is the kind of movie that a magazine like In Touch even cares about, if you know what I mean. It's a Lars von Trier film. They care about Moneyball, not Melancholia. They care about what I wear to Melancholia premieres; they don't really care about a Lars von Trier film.
I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.
There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.
I really think that 'Christine' is one in a million in terms of independent or studio.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
'Australian Rules' was such a beautiful film - it was art for me.
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts. It's the scripts that tend to be the small arthouse film that tend to be more actor-led and character driven.
'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.
You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
