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I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.
My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.
American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.
I always wanted to work with Ashutosh Gowariker because of the interesting ways in which he depicts stories in his films.
I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
Earlier I used to be scared of ghosts. Now, after having done so many paei films, I start thinking to myself 'Naaney Pei.'
The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.
A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried.
People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
In Bengali films, since I also write the lyrics, there are certain songs, which I get emotionally and personally attached to.
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
I don't like horror films. Horror films in the sense of the way horror films are now, like 'Saw,' I don't like that, I don't.
With each of my films, I want to look/be different from the real me and want my performance to be different from the last one.
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
Work is work for me. I can do any work in the field of acting. Be it films, television or theatre, I am willing to do anything.
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.
As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.
My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was alive. He'd probably disown me.
I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?
Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.
I've always loved action movies. The first films I fell in love with were 'Star Wars' and Steven Spielberg films.
Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.
No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
All the films that I did, I didn't plan them. They just came to me.
I am not really attached to my films and work. The film industry is just a small part of my life.
The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.
Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.