All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.
I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.
Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.
The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.
There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.
How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.
Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.
I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.
If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.
I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
The version of me you see on TV now and in my feature films is a pretty happy guy, isn't he?
When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work.
It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.
I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
I did like 'Star Wars' when I was a kid. I saw the prequels first; I didn't see the full original films first all the way through.
The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.
