Film Quotes

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

[10 Things I Hate About You] is a smart and grounded film about a real, well-rounded girl. I think the only other teen film that came close to getting that right was Can't Hardly Wait.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.

I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

I'm always searching for a signature sound and melody that resonates with the film and audience and becomes integral to the film, game, or show.

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.

I believe when you're writing film or television, you can't rely on a crutch or rule that exists outside of the narrative of the film.

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Near the end, she [Marilyn Monroe] was badly treated by Fox Studios, during the 'Let's Make Love' film shoot in 1960, they threw her off the set because she had a cold.