Film Quotes - Page 130

I would rather not make a film than make one where I don't have final cut.

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

I'd like to do an independent film.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.