Film Quotes
Film Quote of the day
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
I'm not a film star; I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.
The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.
I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.
I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.
I think one of my favourite films is 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis. Why? She was so wonderful in that film. And maybe I just want a good cry once in a while without having to go through a divorce.
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.
There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.
We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.
I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.
