Film Quotes

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with. I mean, I'd like to be with her in.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

The dream and the film are the juxtaposition of images in order to answer a question.

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

I'm not meant to run around trees. I can't throw my arms in the air and sing, I find that boring and irritating. Sweet romcoms are not my cup of tea. The film has to be a little twisted and quirky.

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.