Film Quotes

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

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I just called to say, 'I love you.

If you want to enjoy the movie, you should know that it is the combination of film and light and white screen, and that the most important thing is to have a plain, white screen.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

We need less perfect but more free films.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was Glory.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

All my films are love stories.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.