“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren’t ready to make a film.”

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture?

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it’s fast and broad.

Got no place to go, but there’s a girl waitin’ for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

Sure it does. But if you don’t have the balls to give it a shot, you’re destined to fail.

If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

The ultimate secret of success is this: If you tidy up in one shot, rather than little by little, you can dramatically change your mindset.

I don’t like reverse-angle shots – I find them very fake and very untruthful to the viewer.

It’s not so much a question of whether we’ve shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.