Film Quotes

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

The more times people laugh, the better the film is.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

The styling takes you straight into the world of a specific film.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

In a way, I feel that film roles haven't given me the opportunity to show I have a sense of humor.

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I don't look back, no. Maybe when I'm older; people say, 'What's your favorite film?' I say, 'My next one.' I'm not interested in sitting around; I just don't, never have.

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be film, television or even live theater. I'm a performer. That's what I do. That's what I want to do.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

You realize as a director that when you are cutting a film, you want to have alternatives. You need color and choices. You don't want four takes that are identical.

You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore. You beat on them, and they continue to stand there staring at you. That doesn't work. People just don't buy that anymore.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.