Film Quotes

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!

I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.

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.

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

That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

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.

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!

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that and do it really well, but the second film is not so easy.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

Ek Main Aur Ek Tu was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

A film like Hoop Dreams is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and makes us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.