Film Quotes

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less!

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat. They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished product and say oh yeah we want that. This is a great film but they are hesitant to take the risk when you just see it on paper.

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.