Film Quotes

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

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.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

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.