Film Quotes

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I'm anxious to make another film.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.

I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.