Film Quotes

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

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

This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still prefer to have my hands on film when I'm editing.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.

The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film.

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn't matter.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.

It's hard, really, to make any physical movement that hasn't been done in another film. If you grab someone's hand, it doesn't mean you're referencing other films with grabbing hands...

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out.