Film Quotes

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.