In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.
I always approach film as a fan.
No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.