Films Quotes

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

I love caper films.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

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.

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.