On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.
I dream about doing a film about once a week.
I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.
I didnt go to film school, i went to films
I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.
I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.
I can never say that I don't want to work anymore. That would be an absolute lie because I enjoy, I take delight in, working in films because I feel it's an honour, you know, to entertain people, to regale audiences.
I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.
I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.
To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.
I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long time.
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.
I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.
I am bound to get carried away by anyone who approaches me with a good script.
I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.
I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
I always loved films, and when I decided to go to film school, it was with the excuse that I would go into making commercials, because that would be a proper profession, and people wouldn't think I was crazy.
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
My favorite film is 'The Shining,' mostly because it was the film that inspired me to become a filmmaker myself.
I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.
Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
