I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.

In film, you can have sad endings.

I love filming in Britain.

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

In the Indian system of filmmaking, you don't plan well in advance, stick to a storyboard, or deliver only the scripted lines.

The film industry is incredible, and it's inspired a lot of people in the game industry.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

I believe once you watch a Miyazaki film, you'll get hooked.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

One of our film lecturers, one of the guys teaching the course, said to the departing film class, 'No one in this room is going to make it, as a filmmaker.' I have no idea why he said that.

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not going to have a deeply interesting film. It's vital.

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.