Film Quotes

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life.

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

I've done films where we don't rehearse and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

I sometimes get asked if I think about film stuff while I'm writing fiction, and the answer is, of course not.

The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

As an actor, variety is the spice of life. I love theatre… it's what I enjoy the most. But a bit of TV, a bit of film, a bit of stage - what more could you ask for?

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

There are many sides to me to who I am and my personality. I think the only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have a lot of fears, as far as film industry is concerned.

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

You want your film to get seen by as many people as possible. I mean nobody makes movies for themselves.

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

We have so many American and English films in Australia that we hear those accents often, so they're not too hard to pick up, but it's always a challenge.

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home.

I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn't really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

I want to do more films.

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.