Film Quotes

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!

I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.

Generally in my films like Hearts of Darkness or Picture This, I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

I'm a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.

The nice part about not being a huge film is that you get to goof around a bit more.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.

Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.

I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

I think in general with micro-budget films right now, it's rough. The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.