Film Quotes - Page 95

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

My job is just to make the films and then I don't have any strategy.

I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a director, have to see the film as a whole. He must therefore collaborate selflessly, totally.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

My producers give me total freedom. No one asks me for anything; they just tell me to make a good film, and that's what I do.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

A lot of the aspects of the world of the film are amalgams of things that already exist.

I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I try to make each film a different film.