Films Quotes

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

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.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.