Film Quotes - Page 56

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me.

People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.