Film Quotes - Page 35

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.

I think I've done every disgusting thing you can in a film.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

You always gotta continue to hunger. If you're gonna continue in any kind of industry whether music or the film industry or athletics, that drive to become better is what will eventually make you into that superstar everybody else will see.

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.

Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Films like Fargo are why I love the movies.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.