Film Quotes - Page 25

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

My films are about embarrassment.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.

I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!

I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best stab at every moment. You can't really - you'll drive yourself crazy if you dwell on the negative aspects of it or your shortcomings.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.