Film Quotes

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress.

I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

My job is to make superhit films