Film Quotes - Page 65

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

The only music I've ever written was for a film called Frank, and the idea was that it was the worst music in the world.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and killing the monster. I think most of the scripts I read to tend to go in that direction and I find that very, very unsatisfying. I want the stories to have loose ends and to pose some questions - or even say things that aren't too comfortable.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I never feel there's anything I can't do with comics. There are certain things in comics that you can't do in any other medium: for instance, in Mister Wonderful, Marshall's narration overlaps the events as they're going on. That would be difficult in film; you could blot speech out with a voiceover, but it wouldn't have the same effect. That's always of interest, to see what new things you can do in comics form.

There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.