I've always loved film more than theater.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.