Film Quotes

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

I did not go to film school.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.