Film Quotes

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

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.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.