I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture. . . It's palpable.
If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.
Tobin Bell wasn't obligated to do the second Saw film but he wanted to. I think they brought me into this film because there's a first time director, and my reputation is one of an actor who's there for the betterment of the project. I'm not there to better myself. I'm there to bring all my resources to the project to make it as good as it can be. In the end, that makes everyone look good.
Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
I certainly think that - especially with the challenges of making movies now, where you're making them in 20 or 30 days - the more experiences that you can get on those kinds of movies, where you have to use a lot of your problem-solving skills that maybe you wouldn't get on a film that takes three months, that, to me, has just been amazing.
I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.
It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!
I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
This film [ Into the Forest], it was special for that reason, because as an actress, you usually don't get to work with other actresses because you are usually up for the same roles, and you don't get to hang out that much.
I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
It's one of the best feelings in the world to hit the quarterback like that, hear the crowd go crazy, and then to watch it on film. You look forward to those types of plays. The best part about it is that you never know when it's going to come. Every play you've got to go hard and every play you've got to think and believe that you're going to get that quarterback sack. If you don't get it that play it might be the next play so you've always got to be thinking about it, and when it comes, it's the best.