Film Quotes

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Music is half the film.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

I love the medium of film.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.