Film Quotes

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.

There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

Films are always different from books.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

I like having deadlines... a film release date or a concert premiere date. It channels one's energy into doing often remarkable work that oceans of extra time would probably not improve upon.

I'm anxious to make another film.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

I support all Australian films.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

It depresses me when people expect me to be like the characters I play on film. I'm not some whiny loser punk, I'm a man's man.

I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.