Film Quotes

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely.

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Music is half the film.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.