Film Quotes

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

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.

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

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

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.

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

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.

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.

I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

I hope I inspire children to make films.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

I think that in the American film industry - or even in the European cinema - movies are made not to disturb any kind of class or any kind of minority.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.