Film Quotes

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

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.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

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.

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.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.