Film Quotes - Page 81

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.

I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

I hate violence. That has never prevented me from using it in my films.

There are things that you could do with film that you could never do with HD. There's a warmth and an organic quality - almost a handmade quality - that goes into film. Film will always have a bit more of a humanistic feeling to it.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

My nickname is Bondy. But not because of the Bond films - it was my surname a long time before I did those.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.