Films Quotes

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

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.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

I love being verbal in films.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.