Film Quotes - Page 23

We need less perfect but more free films.

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.

Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's like imagery there. That always stuns me.

Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family.

All my films are love stories.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

Following 'Urumi,' I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

If you decide to direct a film, it's because you have something to say, something to show to the audience.

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that.