Film Quotes

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

I'm really drawn to European films.

I always loved experimenting in film.

When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

If you're not compulsively a monomaniac, you'll never make a film. It's like taking the same chewing gum, every morning, and saying, "Okay, it has a lot of taste," and continuing to chew it.

I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great!

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence is sort of in all of my films.

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

It is hard to come up with ideas that are achievable on a scale that you know you are going to have for an indie film but it also have some kind of hook.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that you might not deal with for another 45 years doesn't mean you won't like it.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.