Film Quotes

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

I think every film has a destiny.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

I love doing kids' films.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.