Film Quotes

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

I want people to feel that they've gotten to know the people in the film a little bit, gotten to see Pine Ridge in ways they haven't seen before. I think that's a good start.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

I am particularly pleased to see that there are so many women working in documentary film.

My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.

Every film has challenges and all of us are doing it together, all the cast is doing it together so you keep each other motivated I guess and keep each other in check.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

My films do very well on home video.

I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it

The world of Ultimate Spider-Man is funny. I can't imagine a live-action film where he's Principal Coulson and dealing with some of the pranks from these guys.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

The last film is always the most important.

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.