Film Quotes - Page 14

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

I was always interested in films that scar.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

I have watched all SRK Films . I am like a crazy fan. I have watched DDLJ and KKHH so many times

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

When you're making an independent film and you care about it so much you do all the prep work beforehand.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids’ films...

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.