Film Quotations | Page 2

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

It certainly made a film writing career for me.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film,

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B.

While more great films are being made every year, it is increasingly difficult to get indies into theaters or on TV.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

You want to see women your own age in films.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.