Film Quotes

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.