Film Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

I'm pretty bad at seeing new films.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After all, regardless of how the film turns out, I must have fun doing the film!

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.