Film Quotes

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

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.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.