Film Quotes - Page 46

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

It's nice that we have all these different films.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I did important films when I was very young.

I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.