Film Quotes

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.

If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

You know when I shoot with digital capture, I look for the mistake. When I shoot with film I embrace it.

I take every film as it comes.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.