Film Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin