Film Quotes - Page 82

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

The communal experience of sharing something, and being part of it, and watching something visually striking, that's what film is all about. Seeing everything on a big screen, and to be able to see something phenomenal in that way, and being moved by it. We have kind of lost the tradition of that, and we're not nurturing the next generation in that tradition, and maybe that's why they're not turning up.

Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.

To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin - she's got an incredible body of work and the attitude and the toughness of her really is to me, the Major.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."

It was a tough film ["Selling Isobel"] to make anyway, because we had limited resources.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Every goal is a highlight film.

I'll just say it: I love Sundance; my very first film won Sundance.

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.