Film Quotes

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

You learn on every film so much.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

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

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

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