Film Quotes

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

There are three rape scenes that I've had to act in, and none of them have gotten to film. I don't think it's something that should be promoted in any way.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

I always approach film as a fan.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.