Film Quotes - Page 63

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I've done quite a few big American films.

If I hear a film clip, or I happen to see some image from a film - you go to a film festival, and they show some clip of the movies you've been in, most of the time I sit there and go, "Oh God, I should have... should have... that was terrible." But I think that's a natural part of this work, because really, your work is never over. Of course I can leave it alone and walk off the set and never think about it again when it's done. But your work is really ongoing all the time.

I had a talent for scoring films; I just developed it.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Big feature films are another world.

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Film is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.