Film Quotes - Page 101

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.

I'd always loved the theater, and I began by writing plays. I work in the theater a lot in the UK, and I've worked in the theater out here quite a bit. Everything else - the films - followed as a consequence of that.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.

We were so ready [with Valerian] that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.

Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare!

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but if you're going to shoot a film - an independent movie on film, the only way to really do it is to print your selects.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

Film is wonderful as opposed to theater, because it will always live there, and they will always be seen.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I still knew nothing. I don't think I really learned how to land on my marks until after Empire Records in 1995, 'cause sometimes I'll see a shot in that film, and I'm like "Whoa, I just walked over to the corner."

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.