Films Quotes

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

I am married to the theater, and the films are only my mistress.

There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

I love caper films.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.