Films Quotes

Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

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

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.

I've made several films that haven't been shown.

I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

You want to see women your own age in films.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

The financing of my films has always been international.

Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

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.