Film Quotes

I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

When I started in film, I was living and working in Asia, and when we did films there, it was so fast. It was much like TV.