Film Quotes

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.

Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

I've always loved film more than theater.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.