Film Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes film kills the room to dream.

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!

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Each thing leapfrogs. I do a Genesis project - like now, we're just finishing off an album - and then by the time the album is doing its thing, I could do nothing or I could do a film.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

Theres plenty of great independent films to do, but you cant support yourself making independent film as an actress.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

Making a film is like going down a mine-once you've started you bid a metaphoricalgoodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration.

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.