Film Quotes - Page 26

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

You are not an active creator of the film.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.