Film Quotes

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.

I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I'm doing something called 'Olivia Twisted,' that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that's the one that I'm slated to do next year. That's a very ultra-modern version of 'Oliver Twist,' and it's female-driven. It's an action film, and it's kind of dark and gritty.

In this way, some film schools can be destructive.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.