Film Quotes

I think Shah Rukh and I have done essentially romantic films that had great contributions from everyone else, so it's not as if we alone are responsible for our hits.

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.

I've got a New Zealand film coming out here called Out of the Blue. It's a very heavy story, and it's the first time I've played a character who is alive.

Yeah, I played video games on and off for quite a few years. I played Doom and was a fan of the game and that was my prime reason for doing the film.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

If I was not a film-maker I'd probably be a musician. I like Kanye West, Jay-Z, R&B, classical, jazz and all kinds of music, but I'd say soulful World Music is my favorite.

I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films.

Normally, when you go to a beach, everybody is wearing bikinis, but on a film, you're the only one. There's like 60 people staring at you. They're doing their jobs, but they're still staring at you.

I wouldn't be a part of anything that had acts of violence toward children. I don't think I would do a horror film, either. That just doesn't sit well on my soul.

I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

Everything was a constant battle. My first film was beautiful. I got an amazing cast. That worked out great. Everything else was like murphy's law. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

I can not watch either of the "Paranormal" films alone.

I find that usually when I watch something like horror film, I'm constantly thinking no, it's not going to happen.

I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel you can get right inside somebody's head.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

I think - I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be - it's gone. It's going to be gone.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

I always wanted to design for films.

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.