Film Quotes

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

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

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

Film is a truly magical medium.

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

I like to make mechanical stuff. Once I make a film I have to do whatever I can make onstage I make it onstage.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.