Film Quotes

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.

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

I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

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.