Film Quotes

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

In film, you can have sad endings.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.