Film Quotes

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 really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.