Film Quotes
Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
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.
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
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.
To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
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.
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.
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.
A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
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.
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.
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.
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...
I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
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.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.
It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.