Film Quotes - Page 121

It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.

What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I guess I've been fortunate in having an ongoing film career while being based in Melbourne. I'm happy to commute. A day on a plane. Come on. It's easy.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to me a great film. But whatever pigeon-hole you put Stalker into you would both be increasing the risk of disappointing people and diminishing the film.

The only distinction I'd make is between film and telly, I guess. "Film," "movies," and "cinema" are all synonyms as far as I'm concerned; but telly is different. It's just a plodding we've-done-this-scene, we've-done-that-scene and it never becomes this new other thing.

If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.

When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like Hulk and The Punishers.