You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.
I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.