I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
Some films shouldn't be remade.
I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
I watch mostly independent films.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.
I've never really liked horror films.
Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.
I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.
One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.
You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
The idea of acting is something that absolutely repulses me. I just can't do it. I'm terrible at it. I get roped into films every now and then, and it's always a disaster.
I have never planned my career here in Bollywood, so planning to do Hollywood films is a distant thing. You have to see how things come.
My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.
My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.
My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
I'd like to do a hundred different films.
When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
