I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.
Michael Jackson changed the format and history of music. His videos were films. He was the first who floated on the stage and changed the concept of a musical performance. He created something that's still the basis of a lot of what's done today.
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes, or problems, or ideas. But those are actually things that develop out of characters, out of images and out of other things. These more abstract things develop while working on the material, and out of it. It's not a theoretical exercise from the outset.
Well that's basically how we launched Sherwood Pictures, and with our films, we sat down and we had a long list of specific things that we were praying for God to provide, and then we would just deal with all those things in prayer first, and then when we went out and began knocking on doors and calling, it was clear that God was going before us and providing the way and sending the resources.
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
There were so many people who wanted me for their films.
I think TV shows have usurped films!
Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films. ' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.