Film Quotes

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I wouldnt mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly dont want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001).

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I have watched all SRK Films . I am like a crazy fan. I have watched DDLJ and KKHH so many times

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.

A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I was always interested in films that scar.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

I don't normally do big movies. I'm new to this world. And I've always been afraid that jumping onto a big budget film, you would lose the relationships in favour of special effects.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.