Film Quotes

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

We're under the Arts Council under the Minister for the Arts. The Minister for the Arts and the Minister for Industrial Development have great difficulty in agreeing over who should fund what in terms of film.

I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

Film is forever.

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.