Film Quotes

I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

Film still looks way better than digital.

I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.

It's in the public domain. That's one of the reasons I do it so much. But luckily, it's a brilliant film [ Night Of The Living Dead]. Every horror aficionado must see that film at least once.

The lack of racial diversity and gender diversity and the lack of female directors - those are not fashionable issues. And they're not issues that reside solely within the film industry.

A film is not a documentary. And what's wonderful about film is that it's a real provocation for people. I never, ever see film as being an absolute version of the truth.

You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes," because that's such a great learning tool.

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.

Chicago is a great place because you can experience theatre, film, television, anything and everything, so for an actor it's exciting. The doors are kind of open.

I studied acting at Boston University. I was in the theater department there. Somewhere in there I decided that wasn't what I was going to do and I went to the B.F.A. film program at N.Y.U.

I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.

I thought that if no one was going to give me a great part - and it was very difficult to break into film, obviously - then I'd write one myself.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.