Film Quotes

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

Television is face acting, and film is eye acting.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

I don't go to the movies because I don't like films.

We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

When I'm able to bring together the two worlds that I love so much - film and TV - is a documentary feature, it's nirvana!

I have an incredible team of collaborators that work with me on all my films. I adore them and respect them tremendously. I can't wait to begin production on my next film so we can be reunited.

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

I'm gonna film my entire life and watch it later!

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

Obviously, you never shoot the scenes of a film in order or only very rarely.

I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a time.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

I loved Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" - it was really sexy and naughty and totally weird. When you're a kid watching that stuff on television you're like, "Well, we are opening up as a society!"

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

My co-star would be... One of my actual best friends. I am blessed to have so many beautiful talented people around me, I would like them all in my film please!!!

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.