Film Quotes

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

I always approach film as a fan.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.