Film Quotes

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

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

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

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

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.

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

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

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.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

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

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

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

I'm a huge film star... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f--ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f--ing Muppet movie.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Don't use your film for ugly purpose.

I think back, when I saw The Great Gatsby, the film, my grandfather probably helped supply all the alcohol to all these Southampton parties, back then.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

My job is — I make socks. That’s all I do. I don’t necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.

I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.