Film Quotes

But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.

The Loved One has been the most underrated film I've worked on.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.

On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.