Film Quotes

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.

We wanted to prove that I am not just a provocateur, as the television said [referring to a Fox news clip shown in the film]. It's challenging, but it's not just challenging.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I don't prefer much of film over stage... The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.

I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

I think it serves the purpose of the film if the premise is that you're unsure of me because you've only ever really seen me play villains.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

I don't think there is any difference between fantasy and reality in the way these should be approached in a film. Of course if you live that way you are clinically insane.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.