Film Quotes - Page 73

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

Jennifer [Lawrence] and Josh [Hutcherson] seem very, very grounded. They're getting down to the film like they did last time.

You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.

A lot of feature films do two pages a day.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Kurt Russell said another brilliant thing. He had starred in umpteen movies by that point. And he said, "Generally speaking, in every film I've done, there are only about three or four scenes that I can really do something with. For the rest of it, it's not so much that you don't have to prepare, but there's not much you can really do. You just do what is asked of you in those scenes. You don't want to do too much."

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract craziness that goes along with it, and there's something about it that's quite beautiful.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.