Film Quotes - Page 112

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

I don't think I have a definitive film. Such a thing is not possible for me.

As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become friends, and I told her how great this film was, and she told me, "Well, I'll have to see it for myself." So I showed it to her, and she flipped.

Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

I love films that test cynicism and inspire you to do better in your dealings with your family and with strangers.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

More women have to be in charge of studios, so that they can greenlight films with women.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

I find that I always also manage to incorporate a simultaneous reflection on cinema history into my films.

I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.