Film Quotes

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything.

The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

Film has to describe and show.

For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.