Film Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.

My personal problem is that I take the business of film-making so seriously that I find it very difficult to relax.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm.Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.

But I've worked where they've had animals before, and animal wranglers, the people who raise animals and train animals for films and television, they're all very, very professional.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

I'd love to make a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' The film didn't do as well at the box office as we all hoped, but it has endured and generated a following.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

The film is made in the editing room.

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

I never make a film with a message in mind. I'm more interested in the characters; how they are related to each other and the situation they're in.

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

With some films you can sort of slide in, get a haircut and you're in.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it