Film Quotes

Film, I think, is my medium.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

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.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

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 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'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

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.

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.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those kinds of directors and getting to tell those stories is what I want to do.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.