Film Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

I did important films when I was very young.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.