Film Quotes

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Film is a strange thing.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

It's a better time for actresses on TV than on film.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

No two directors make the same film the same way.