Film Quotes

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

The reality is that we have all these awards and all these festivals that give out awards, so you sort of go, 'okay, well, people liked the film, and I think it's a good film, and it's up for an award - well, I guess it should win the award then.'

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.