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"I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring."
"Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural."
"My current project was shot on film, and because of that I've spent my entire day removing dust-specks from negatives. You wouldn't have to do that on digital because you don't get dust on the scanner. I say to myself, "Why am I doing this all day?" I could have just bought a digital camera and I wouldn't have to remove dust-specks ever again. But when you move closer to a film image, it has a real truth to it. And I really like that."
"I love being verbal in films."
"Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'"
"Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded."
"You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do."
"I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work."
"The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up."
"Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place."
"We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists."
"Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film."
"My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong."
"I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future."
"My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film."
"In any film there's always a historical implication."
"Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way."
"My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him."
"It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films."
"I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise."
