Films Quotes

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.

I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.

I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.