Film Quotes - Page 44

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I was about 25 and it was a great way to express myself.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

When you make a film, you come to say something.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

The future of American film lies on television.

The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only had to know 40 when I started. And I thought, "Well, that's going to be so much easier." But film stayed pretty much the same. And television has changed so many times that my head hurts. So I made the wrong call there.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.