Film Quotes - Page 43

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

A good film is also a documentary

I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when youre in a film thats done well.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

That's when you know a horror film delivers - when you're walking out of the theater going 'Oh my God!' You can't get the images out of your mind.

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.