Film Quotes - Page 15

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

I stopped making films to look after animals.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

Horror has been a genre since the beginning of cinema, all the way back to the days of silent films. I don't think it will ever go away because it's so universal. Humor doesn't always travel to other countries, but horror does.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

My reaction to 3D is subtly. Things don't come out at you, but rather you - The audience come into the film.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.