Film Quotes

I would love to work on a Bond film.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

My Toussaint [Louverture] film is in limbo. We still hope after all this time that we can find another way to get this film done.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

I love action films. I don't really like drama.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Theres nothing gratuitous about my films.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.