Films Quotes

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I go to the movies. I absolutely love film.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I love filming in Britain.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I don't think good films have messages.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.

I always knew I wanted to make films, but just didn't quite know how to start. I was making little short films with my friends but I wasn't quite sure how to put those pieces together for myself.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

When you make a documentary film, after many years the only thing you remember is what you put into the film, not what you took out.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.