Film Quotes - Page 20

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get...experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to say it not too directly, to be hidden behind a woman.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

We show a lot of film [with Regis Philbin] from my career which is most enjoyable. I enjoy watching it.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.