Film Quotes

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

You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not offer screeners. I do not offer DVD's. I do not offer posters. I require a first-class flight to bring the print however I do not offer any photo ops or press exchange in any way. My fee for showing my film is $35,000 dollars US.

So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

Nudity, in the right way, can enhance a film or a TV program or a TV commercial. If it's done tastefully it can make it more of an interesting product.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.