Film Quotes

I just hope that my films will survive me.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I don't think that theater is the higher medium, that it's better than film.

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

I watch mostly independent films.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.

Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I did a film many years ago called The Man Without A Face.Gaby [Hoffmann] was in with Mel Gibson. That was his directing debut. He did a great job.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.

If I do a lot of television, than I miss theater. If I do a lot of theater, than I miss film. This global thing of performing arts gives me strength.

I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.