I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson... I love American movies, but I love European movies, too, and I want to do both.
A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.
I've done a lot of genre movies.
I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures.
In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.
I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.
The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.
There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
Clint Eastwood said, the only things America has contributed to civilization are the western and jazz. And I don't think westerns are bad, but lots of people make great cinema. But jazz is right there.
I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
I believe that the difference in genre of movies is a small thing.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.
Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.
If I can work with Shyam Benegal and Yash Chopra together, who are the kings of art house and commercial cinema and win awards for both of them then it means I have placed myself everywhere.
I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.
Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.
I'm a very eclectic person, and I enjoy multiple tastes; I'm like a bee who jumps from flower to flower. Before I die, I have to make a war movie, a Western, and a movie like Mike Nichols, because I love him.
There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.
Superhero movies have become a genre unto themselves, and I didn't really grow up on superhero movies. I grew up on genre movies before superhero was a genre.
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
