Film Quotes - Page 91

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

[Televised stand-up] never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was [shot on] film.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I always push myself, even when I did a film where it was pretty much me the whole film.

I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't remember speaking to my elders like that, because you never remember... actually our generation was quite bad because everyone else always seems worse.

I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want." I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something."

The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

We're big fans of the show on BBC, and some of the greatest actors in film and television have done this character, from Basil Rathbone to Nicol Williamson to Michael Caine. (Executive producer) Rob Doherty came in with the pitch last season, it was immediately a show that we gravitated towards.

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

I only work every five years. It's exhausting. I've got a family, and I want to be a really good parent, as well as a hopefully good filmmaker.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.

I'm a fetish filmmaker, in that I don't know why I do what I do, I just like to see things. When I figure out what I would like to see, I will put it in a film.

I can't make a film that I don't feel comfortable with.

I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.