Film Quotes

When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, "Oh, we should film this." As opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with that. Some of the finest acting I've ever come across has been for film.

The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to those people who maybe had never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.

There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

You could make a film about being intoxicated only when you're riding motorcycles, but really when you're in an enclosed space safely, you can.

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

You never know when the publicity people will feel it is a good time to release the film.

I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

Every year there's a jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Getting on the jury is very competitive in France. Not because the French love cinema, but because they love to judge.

I still have auditions for independent films. I've been still working.

Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

I used to be a huge fan. "The Simpsons" taught me a lot about filmmaking. It imitates film, but it's drawn, so everything is super clear

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!