Film Quotes

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

The more we can be honest about ourselves as filmmakers, than the more we can be honest with people who see the films.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

I would say music, film, and talented people inspire me.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.

You're always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.

The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for True Detective was one of them.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.