Films Quotes

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I must stick with Chinese language films.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.

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 took two years away from making films to write a novel.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.