Film Quotes

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of Singham, I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

Clothes are functional but that doesn't mean they're not a form of art. They're just another way to express creativity. It could be film, it could garment.

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.

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.

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

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

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.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.