Film Quotes - Page 19

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

I just called to say, 'I love you.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

Film is a battleground.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

My job is to make superhit films

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story. That seems to be forgotten. Many films today just rely on special effects and they have an explosion every five minutes. Who needs it? It's rather repetitious.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.

I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film