Film Quotes - Page 124

I love that this film [Into the Forest] has a balance.

Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.

I love watching horror films because I don't get scared easily.

I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.

I've always loved [Elsa Dorfman] work. I've loved her and her work is so much an expression of her. One of the reasons to make the film is to expose Elsa, hopefully, to a wider audience.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

What's great about documentary genre, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of "documentary."

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book did, because it wasn't going to read as strongly on screen.

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.

Oh, IMDB, yeah; there's a few things on there that are TV, they're not film, some things they think we did that we didn't. There's a few inaccuracies in there. It's terrifying though, isn't it?

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

I really enjoy working on small films.