The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.
I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.
I'm not making films just to be bold.
You could pick another two people and you'd have a whole other story and that's why films about love get made and made and made - because there's a million ways to tell it and no two stories are the same.
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films.
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.
He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.
I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.
It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring. "
I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.
When you meet people that you know from other films - as often happens to me, and as tends to happens to you when you're an actor, you constantly meet people that you've seen in other films. But when it's people who've kind of had a seismic effect on your life, it's quite extraordinary.