Film Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

I did so many comedies that we've had numerous discussions about horror of film and I've always been really hesitant to do so because the last thing I wanted to make was a horror movie.

It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful, That's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.

All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

A good film is also a documentary

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing a character over multiple hours, as opposed to two.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of these show show business ingredients than by dancing?

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

I'd love to find a small movie that someone would sign off on me to do. I have no aspirations to do a big studio film because I don't think anyone would let me.

When I perform on stage, you have to remember my performance or buy another ticket to the party! In television and film, you can see it over and over again.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.