Film Quotes

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low-key 3D film.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you're on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film.

Really fantastic film, 'Munich'. So yeah, if I would say, what's the most underappreciated film, I think 'Munich' would be the one.

It's very hard to go to Monument Valley and not think of John Ford's films.

It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

I've never made money from films.

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

My first job was an AFI short film, Chasing Daylight, when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.

I will shoot on film as long as they make it.

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.