Film Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

The films that are interesting you never can stop... there's no end point, you just keep thinking and musing about it.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

Films should be for everybody.

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, “Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub”.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.