Film Quotes

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.

I did not grow up watching much TV and film. I had a very, very, very, very, very, very church family, and a lot of, like, secular stuff was not around my house.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.

I like films that are about two hours not more.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.