Film Quotes

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

You want to see women your own age in films.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what youre going to do next.

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

I love the art form, but working in film can be a disheartening experience.

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

Everyone who makes a Star Wars film wants to make it their own but they also have to be true to the concept.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

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.

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

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

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.