Film Quotes

At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Film is a strange thing.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

It's a better time for actresses on TV than on film.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.