Film Quotes

If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

May the Force be with you.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.