Film Quotes - Page 4

I am not greedy. I do not seek to possess the major portion of your days. I am content if, on those rare occasions whose truth can be stated only by poetry, you will, perhaps, recall an image, even only the aura of my films.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

When I begin a film, I want to make a great film. Halfway through, I just hope to finish the film.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

A film should be like a rock in the shoe.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.