Films Quotes

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I think us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I've made a lot of stupid action films in my life but I like stupid action films and am kind of proud of them.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Big feature films are another world.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.