Film Quotes - Page 33

It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.