Film Quotes

I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

A film set is really delicate and people treat you very very well if you're an actor because they want you to be as comfortable as possible for you to do your work, but it really is just one in a team of many and usually 150 people.

Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it?

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them.