Film Quotes

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.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'