Film Quotes

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on.

You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!

You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.

As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

Any film is at least better than real life.

1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.

My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

It was a tough experience with Alan Horn, who didn't like anything that was R-rated. So you can imagine he hated some of my films.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears...

I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

(In) most cop shows, every cop in the squad speaks exactly the same and the same kind of short clipped film noir-ish talk.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.