I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
You want a career. You don't want to do a couple of good films and then your career is over.
Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.
I don't approach films purely in context of genre.
When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.
A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched.
I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
Competitive feeling means you want do do good work. You can't lie about wanting to be on top. There is no reason for me to be insecure at this time. I would be insecure if I was sitting at home doing nothing, but I am in films now, and that's where I always wanted to be.
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.
Blue Tongue Films is a very important part of my life.
When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
I made short films in school.
When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.
In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.
I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.
You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.
'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.
You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.
British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.
