My movies are not about being, but becoming.
In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it
I consider myself more of a film fan than a filmmaker, or I guess it's kind of a balance, fortunately. But I really want to see good movies as much as I want to make good movies and I want to see bizarre movies as much as I want to make bizarre movies.
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
I only make movies to finance my fishing.
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.
I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.
I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.
My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me every night. I never went to sleep without her reading to me. And she fantasized about the book and she would talk about it, the place, and you would think that after she read the book and after she told you stories about it, that she had actually been there. I learned about story from her, and I learned the value of a great story, and the value of great characters.
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
I think a lot of women feel like they have to choose between making movies or making a family.
I make movies for a long time. It doesn't get easier.
My older movies, I find easier to watch.
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.