Film Quotes

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

I love being verbal in films.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

It's so many different elements to a film. Just learning the ins and outs and how the machine works.

I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.

I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

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

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

Film has always been where my heart is.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

I think back to back romantic comedies are good for black film.

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

One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.

The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I make films about working class people.

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

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

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 think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

I do like fantasy films.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.

Well, I guess what's caught on film is caught on film, and it would be hard for me to stand here and say that it wasn't, you know me.

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

I'd love to do music for films.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.