Film Quotes - Page 129

I am defined also by Woody Allen’s films and Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch and Julian Schnabel or Almodóvar, or by Guillermo del Toro, Iñárritu, Cuarón. Even if we haven’t worked with them, we are all defined by their filmography.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

I am enjoying myself and I do not mind the loss of personal time and family time when I am doing good films.

The styling takes you straight into the world of a specific film.

We are born with everything we need for a life of fulfilment and success.

A really good horror film has a story.

The more times people laugh, the better the film is.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.