Film Quotes

Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month.

I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that Woody [Allen] has what he needs to make the film that he has envisioned.

As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy.

If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.

My advice to first time filmmakers is believe in yourself and the message you want to give in the film you are making.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

There is a difference between film and digital. Because digital, you know, it's perfect and whatever. But with film, you get depth. You get subject.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

I got into acting to get my foot in the door for film-making.

Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just [so visually] crazy.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.

In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was not dreaming of becoming a film director.