Film Quotes - Page 87

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I think Magnolia is one of the best films I've ever seen and I can say that straight and out and anybody that disagrees with me I'll fight you to the death. I just think it is one of the greatest films I've ever been in and ever seen.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

The film business has so many twists and turns that its a miracle any film gets made.

That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.