Film Quotes - Page 126

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end.

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

In fact, whenever I go and watch a film I don't like to read about them beforehand - I like to go in fresh and get inside the story without knowing what's going to happen.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

I have died in enough TV and films.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience

You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.