Film Quotes

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement, and it's really shaped my life and my career.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

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.

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

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Body Electric... It is the first song from my new short film called #‎ Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

Simplicity is the strength of the film. It is an emotion-packed film with simple things knitted together beautifully.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

It's hard to predict what kinds of people are going to enjoy it [film]. And what people ain't. That's the movies. You never know.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.