Film Quotes

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.

I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

Big feature films are another world.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

The beauty is that we can blur film and TV a little bit more.

I like to do films that celebrate life.

Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

The film makers are the true movie stars.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.