I Don't See That Anybody Needs To

The Timing Of Comedy Is So Difficult. You've Got To Leave Room For A Laugh, You Don't Want To Kill The Laugh, But On Film, You Can't Just Suddenly Stop For A Laugh And Then Carry On. So, I Think It's A Real Art Form, Comedy On Film.

I Always Feel When You Work With An Artist And Whenever I Work With A Really Good Photographer, I Try To Give Him Or Her Their Own Artistic Freedom Because That's The Way You Get The Best Work Or At Least The Most Interesting Work.

Once A Film Gets Into Production, The Actors Sometimes Begin To Have More Input Than A Writer Does.

I Wonder What It Means When Americans Say I'm An American. In Britain The Culture Is Basically The Same From One End Of The Country To The Other. And When I Came Here And I Saw Americans Who Live, I Don't Know, In You Know, Northwestern California As Opposed To Americans Who Live In Louisiana, As Opposed To Americans Who Live In The Nevada Desert. English Even Is Literally A Picture That I Have In My Mind Of An Oak Tree In The Field, A Single Oak In A Green Field. And Also When I Think Of My Russian Roots, It's The Landscape That I Connect With As More Than Maybe The Poetry Or The Drama.

It'll Be The Internet And Piracy That Will Kill Film. There's A Philosophy That The Internet Should Be Free, But The Reality Is That Piracy Will Destroy The Film Industry And Film As An Art Form Because It's Expensive To Make A Movie. Maybe You'll Have Funky Little Independent Movies, And It'll Go Back And Then Start Up Again Some Other Way.