Film Quotes - Page 39

There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

The industry is s**t, it's the medium that's great.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.