Film Quotes

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

Ive had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

I love film so much. I think theatre will definitely be there for me as well, but for now I'd like to do more films.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second film is where you've really needed to have learned something.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid £75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money.

I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

I've done quite a few big American films.

Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others that a monastic life does not afford.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

I look at the calendar. If it's a nice place, I go, like I did in London when it came to choosing to do a film. I always choose the best locations. New Orleans. That's fun. I'm available. Let's go.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.

I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

The idea of directing a film is a strange one for me. I feel anti-mathematical, in a way, in that sense. I don't like when things make sense. I prefer if they don't.

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

Every film deserves its own unique look.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."