Film Quotes
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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Brad [Pitt] and I have never wanted our kids to be actors. We've never talked about it. But, we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy's life, and for it not to be kept from it either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need a lot of money. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors.
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
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I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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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.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
