Film Quotations

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers.

In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

A really good horror film has a story.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

I have died in enough TV and films.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

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

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.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I love action films. It's my favorite genre.

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

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India.