Film Quotes

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to another is wrong. I never really felt that books fitted into film. Generally people are disappointed, aren't they?

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.