Film Quotes - Page 125

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"

I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

I love European films in general. If I were to go to the movie store or something, that's what I like to see.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want you to be imaginative, and if you're intrigued, the work will grow on you and you're going to build your own interpretation.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

You make a film and you don't know who it's going to appeal to.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.