It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mister Wonderful, Marshall's narration overlaps the events as they're going on. That would be difficult in film; you could blot speech out with a voiceover, but it wouldn't have the same effect. That's always of interest, to see what new things you can do in comics form.
Film really is a collaborative art.
I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.
I haven't watched it [ film Pink Floyd at Pompeii] in years. I find it excruciating.
The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film very little and always when something excites me and seems to mean something for the film.
I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.
One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I just was concentrating on making the best film I could under the circumstances I was given. That's all I could really do.
Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.
A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 911.
I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.
When you look at any of my films you will immediately be able to tell this is a [Werner] Herzog film. Even if you didn't have any credits, in two minutes flat you would know.
