Films Quotes

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.

Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

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.

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.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense 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.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.