Films Quotes

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.