Film Quotes

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations.

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

I've never done a film that I'm proud of.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

After Frankenstein, I feel as if I want to make a film about somebody having a nice cup of tea.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

We need more filmmakers of color telling the story. I'd like to see more filmmakers take their products out independently, put together a good commercial film and distribute it online.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.