Film Quotes

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

I brought the film like a flower to the world.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

When I make a film, I'm not doing it purely for political reasons. If I just wanted to do that, I'd run for office.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.