Film Quotes

You learn as much from doing a bad film as a good one.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

Jenna Malone was a very important piece of how the film [The Neon Demon] turned out.

I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

My initial idea was I wanted to make it a horror film, very much. At times I do enter that world.

I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

I was 21 and I got to film with my best friend.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.

I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

It's always really special to be at the New York Film Festival, and always a real privilege.

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I like to do all kinds of films.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.