Film Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my mother indoctrinated me very early.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

‘Blade Runner’ is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don’t think you should ever touch it again.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

I think that the biggest challenge for me making films is how much of your life you give to something. Shooting the film requires 14-hour days, six days a week.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.