Film Quotes

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

Film is my passion. I had no money, after Human Zoo. I was completely broke. It was horrible. My film was in Berlin on opening night, but I couldn't even get to Berlin.

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

I never thought about acting before I started modeling, but since then I've been in short films and music videos, and I got interested. It felt natural to switch over.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.

[Code Black] doesn't look like any other CBS show... and I don't mean that as any sort of judgment. It's just unbelievably unique, it's gorgeous, and it looks like a film.

Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

When you lock a movie's release date and then move it two months, it's just not good. It's good for everything but the cast, crew, and people who are creatively trying to make a film.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try to make it fit your particular part of your character and your particular film.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I had always been affected by films, as well, of course - and great films.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

I'm probably, if I might, if I stray I might write, go into screenplay or do something in film. Something like that but I think I'm pretty much going to stick to what I'm good at.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

It doesn't matter how good your film is; if people don't know about it, they won't go and see it.

I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.

In some ways I would like to be like Tyler, my char­ac­ter in the film.

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.