Film Quotes - Page 5

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

I haven't watched it [the film 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii'] in years. I find it excruciating.

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.