Film Quotes

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

[Adolf] Hitler had a very strong adolescent side to him, emotionally he was like a boy in certain things, like film stars and gossip.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco his son I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

You have to be willing to put everything you've got towards the project. That to me is very important. And it may not be part of the fad, being the clichéd kind of film that's going to be successful.

I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

There’s nothing like a good ol’ film light in a fogged up studio.

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

All my films are all my children.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.

I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.