Films Quotes

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.

After six, seven films, I started to get a little tired. Shooting takes a lot out of you.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

I hate to look at myself in a mirror, and I never go and see films.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.