Film Quotes
Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.
Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of.
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.
I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.
It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.
Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.
I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.
In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
I have three kids and a wife, and any moments that aren't dedicated to working on this film in some way, or family, are immediately reserved for sleep.
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.