Film Quotes

I would love to do a film in Africa.

I would love to produce a film.

Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.

For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films, I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I don't think good films have messages.

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room - you don't really remember what the alternatives are.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

Directing is much more psychological-it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between two and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

When you are a filmmaker, you need to be rooted, because committing yourself to producing or directing a film is a good three-year process.

It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

Every film that I have done has been woman-centric, because I am in it.