My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
Tupac Shakur is something that, of course I want to make the Tupac movie, I love Tupac, but when that movie was announced, we didn't even have a script yet. It was just being written. People announce things too soon. If you go to any filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - you go in their offices and there are scripts everywhere and there's about four or five of them you really want to make.
There was a lot of pressure on me as a filmmaker to raise the bar and do better than before so, you know, I put a lot of thought and energy, that's for sure.
That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
I'd like to make mistakes on my own dime, and not have a herd of people tell me what I'm doing wrong. and I'm also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that's easier to do on your own terms, than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie. That being said, I'm certainly open to moving into that world.
I don't think that any Icelandic filmmaker feels like he belongs to Icelandic filmmaking, because nobody really knows what it is.
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as a filmmaker I should be able to have that same eclectic taste.
My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. I still don't feel like I've been part of the stereotypical Hollywood system.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.
Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.
Working with David Ayer. . . the guy is a great filmmaker.
As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.