Film Quotes - Page 64

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realized I was in it.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

All my films are all my children.

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.