Film Quotes

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

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.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

I decided to an actress because of the film 'La Dolce Vita.'

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'

The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.