I would love to say to all Americans: 'Each candidate is going to produce a film of an hour and a half. You're going to watch one from each candidate, and then you're going to vote!'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.
I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.
Politicians need a film appreciation course.
I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.
My stupid ambition is to make a film that's not like any other - one that has its own kind of logic and hooks viewers without making them think too much. It's a film I'd love to see, one in which after 10 minutes the audience isn't able to predict the whole thing.
I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.