Films Quotes

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

Big feature films are another world.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

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.

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.

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.