Film Quotes - Page 118

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. Youre all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

When you're a person of color in white America, you know white people. You know why you know white people? Because you can't enjoy any kind of entertainment if you are not able to humanize white people. If you watch a film and are like, "Oh, this has white people in it? Then I'm not interested," then you can't enjoy anything in America!

There’s nothing like a good ol’ film light in a fogged up studio.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.

I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.