Film Quotes
I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.
Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.
This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.
When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.
While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.
Disney was a family film studio and I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with some guy, that was the end of Disney.
The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.
In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.
I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.
I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.
For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
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.
People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.
When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?
A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.
Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.
I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
