Film Quotes - Page 89

There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

I feel like a lot of the films I do, part of the reason I like doing them is I'm not 100 percent sure what it's going to be. It's exciting. I read an equal amount of very generic scripts, and you kind of know exactly what those are and that doesn't whet my appetite. I already know what it is or I already know what the character is. It's just a lot harder to get interested.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

[Jack Reacher] is the longest I'd ever shot anything - and let's be clear, this is my first studio feature film - so there was a huge learning curve.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

I have walked away from enormous amounts of money and I have made that life I have wanted somewhat in this business. I love doing independent film, I love doing theater, I love doing studio films, and I do all three now.

I like films to be complete in their written form.

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I'd like to do a really masculine film.

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.