Film Quotes

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

I'm still trying to learn how to do it, I'm still trying to figure out how to make films, but, yeah, it started then [in 1979].

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

No-one gets beaten to death quite like Hilary Swank

The film 'Boyhood' won the Golden Globe for best drama. It follows one guy's journey over the course of 12 years - or as Mitt Romney calls that, 'running for president.'

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.

If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.

There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.