Film Quotes - Page 21

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West. Pornography is more restricted, but it's not hard to make a crazy, extremely violent film.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the Midlands and outside of London.

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.