The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.
Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost.
I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.
I'd love to have done more film, but you can't have everything.
A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie.
There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.
When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.
That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.
Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
Oh, I so don't care about the podium at the Oscars. I've stood at the podium at the Oscars and that's close enough. To be a presenter is as close as I need to be.
I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.
I talked to George Lucas once, not about Star Wars. Everyone wants to talk to him about Star Wars, and I didn't want to be one of those people. In person - at least on this occasion - he wasn't effervescent and giddy, as the Star Wars movies are. He's more focused.
For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.
I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.
Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.
I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.
