Film Quotes

I have died in enough TV and films.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

I've been in plenty of situations where I thought the film would turn out one way or my performance would be looked at one way and it was an entirely different situation.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

In fact, whenever I go and watch a film I don't like to read about them beforehand - I like to go in fresh and get inside the story without knowing what's going to happen.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.

If you don’t want to be scared in a horror film, don’t close your eyes. Close your ears.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films.

Today with the Internet, I search for film and video archives online. It's an ever-growing moveable visual feast of delicacies from all around the world.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.

I don't like to play characters that are one note, and just the attractive girl in the film.

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

Even in a perfect world where everyone was equal. I'd still own the film rights and be working on the sequel.

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.