Film Quotes

Every film can be fun, even if it's a terror.

I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

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

Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.