Film Quotes - Page 113

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when I began working in the theater. So, I have written scores for thirteen plays, which are not musicals, but straight plays.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

I think it would really be more like 10 films before I locked in and said, "Yeah, I'm really gonna do this thing."

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot.

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

I write and film history; I don't make it.

I make film to make time pass.

The financing of my films has always been international.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

To his credit John Wayne was open about it, he even portrayed a member of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in a film called 'Big Jim McClain.'

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.