Film Quotes

I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

We look at it as the multiverse. We have our TV universe and our film universe, but they all co-exist.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

In film, life-and-death struggles make you sit up, lean forward a little bit. They amplify things happening, in smaller ways, in all of us. These things show up in relationships. They show up in struggles and bring them to a critical point.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.