I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed.
I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.
It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn
You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.
Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
There are many sides to me to who I am and my personality. I think the only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have a lot of fears, as far as film industry is concerned.
I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.
Films make me into some cheap turn. . . You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.
Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more. ). . . when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense.
The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.
Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.
The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.
I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.
As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
