Film Quotes

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

You could build three hospitals with the cost of one film and I take that very seriously.

I am the best film director in the world.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

I would never say someone's else's film isn't 'a real film.' The quote is inaccurate.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.