Film Quotes

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

I love films that don't end when they end, that go on in your head a couple of days later.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

On Darjeeling, I was on set every day and I acted as the second unit director and a producer on that film. I was there throughout the whole process. On Moonrise Kingdom, I showed up for one day.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

Every goal is a highlight film.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

I'd love to do a play a year, if I'm honest, but it depends what comes up. But I do love theatre and it's very different from TV and film, not better or worse.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.