Films Quotes

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

And the reason for that I think is that in Australia our films don't get the exposure, so the process is foremost. But anyway, I love being part of the team and hate being stuck in a corner somewhere.

Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Roman Polanski is a man who cares deeply about his art and its place in this world. What happened to him on his incredible path is filled with tragedy, and most men would have collapsed. Instead, he became a great artist and continues to make great films.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.