Screen Quotes

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.

I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.