Film Quotes - Page 80

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.

I am not someone who believes to doing a film just because it is off beat.

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made be doubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

The difference between film and TV, for me, is just that huge thing of knowing that there's a script that is not going to change and you can go really deep into that. With TV, you're just constantly on a high-wire, making sure you don't fall.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

I think when you're playing a character in any film it's so crucial to have the costume that makes you feel like you're going to be that character.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I'm a believer in film school.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I take every film as it comes.

I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.

I don't necessarily recommend directing your husband or wife in a film, but if you have to do it, you have to do it.

I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

Working with David Ayer...the guy is a great filmmaker.