Film Quotes

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.