Film Quotes

There's no bigger rush than working as a huge team on a set in film and television.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

I am here to act only in films with good script.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

There is an incredible film, 42. It's the incredible story of Jackie Robinson. I have extolled the virtues of this movie to everyone I meet. I've given quotes to everyone I talk to.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

It suits me to be in a series that takes ages to film.

When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.

I try to be straight when I communicate with my audiences through a film. I'm not sure whether I have been successful. I don't watch my film once they're in theaters.

I only see things that I shouldn't have done when I watch my film again.

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.