Films Quotes

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.

He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.