Film Quotes

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory.

The formula for a successful film is simple: good script, good direction, a dedicated cast and a fantastic crew. If you have all of these elements then the rest will fall into place.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things.

I'm certainly not the lead of the film 'Wonder Woman' and I don't have a problem with that.

Film is cool because it's an hour and a half to two hours. It's a great ride. It's typically three acts - beginning, middle and end. It's going on an adventure and by the end it's all cleaned up.

I do love directing. I'm only comfortable working in the independent film arena for a very small budget where I have creative control and I can put my stamp on it.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids’ films...

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

Had there not been the film, my name would not represent somebody that's out there fighting for the environment.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.