Films Quotes

I don't know if I make the best gay films.

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

I consider all my films experiments.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

I make films about working class people.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.