Film Quotes - Page 105

I don't make 'issue' films. I like making films about rebels or pioneers or people that are doing something.

I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.

I can't be enticed by a big commercial film.

I have to make a living, and I have been in a few films I wish I hadn't been in, but I don't know where things will lead me next, and that's exciting.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I really enjoyed working on the 2009 film, 'Aliens in the Attic,' because it was shot in New Zealand and I got to visit there for the first time.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my films.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

The first thing I wanted to do, as a boy, was to be a skier, because I had seen film footage of somebody skiing.

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

I'm the guy that no one knows, but everyone's like, "You're that guy in that film thing."

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

I always wanted to design for films.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.