Film Quotes

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

And I would never accept a film because of the money. I have enough money.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

I don't prefer much of film over stage. The only thing I prefer is the paycheck.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.