Film Quotes - Page 117

We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!

I've never been on a film when an entire cast signs up for the entire time.

Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a film, a broadcast, or a conversation with someone who can impart it.

If my films do well or not, I am glad that the audiences appreciate my performance.

I think every film has a destiny.

I like to do a lot of research on all of the films I work on. So, I like to read a lot. That's always an interesting part of it with me.

Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starving? That's true, but that is only true because the conditions we live under are completely wrong - that should not be true, and it is. And in something like Sarah Polley's film, her fictions deliver so much truth. The retellings and the simulations and the theatrical aspects are what deliver all the truth.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.

I'd love to do more independent films.

Its always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.