Film Quotes

I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

You learn on every film so much.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

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.