Film Quotations | Page 3

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

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

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos', I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

I love films where the world seems to be going a bit faster and everything's a bit brighter and more in focus.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

I love the conversation between film and music.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

I never had a great role in a great film.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time it's an American accent which can be quite trying, but I'm working on it as much as I can.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences