Film Quotes
I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it’s as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
I have too many control issues, so it just is not good for me to go and watch a film, too soon after I make it.
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.
If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.
There's just so little mystery left in music or film. It was all that was magical to me as a child.
Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.
My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.
And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.
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.
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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.
It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.
Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.
We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do romantic comedies. I love all this stuff. So, if I find the good material, I'll do it.
I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.
I don't believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it's there it's got to add to it or take it to another level.
In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun.