Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.
Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.
Carpe diem. (Seize the day. )
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
The look he gave me. . . My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking. " He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.
I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.
Live longer or die hard is not just a movie title, there is a great lesson hidden in this title.
The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce.
As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5. 1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.
Francis Ford Coppola didn't come out of the womb with The Godfather. He had a whole build up until he got to that point. I think it's okay to fail. That's how you learn. I think that's hopefully what people can take away from this movie.
People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.
We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.