Film Quotes

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.

I think, to go to the bottom of it all, that the films I have made and my kind of film-making is a hybrid type of film-making - in that it isn't American, it isn't Italian.

I don't want to do a war film per se. Nor do I want to do a political film.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made be doubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed.

I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

How many more are there like you? (Maggie) Enough to make the cast of a Cecil B. DeMille film look like a two-man opera. (Wren)

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

I love con-men characters in film.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back.

The nuts and bolts of shooting a film and writing a film are still really difficult. But what makes it easier is the fact that you know you're going to go to work with your best mate.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.