I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

I love filming in Britain.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

No one knows which film will be a hit or flop. Film making is a gamble.

I don't want to be seen in every second film. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh no, she's in this one too.'

I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.

I've always believed that it's the film that chooses the actor and not the other way round.

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!

I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.