Film Quotes
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The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
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Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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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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One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera.
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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Every film is hard to fund.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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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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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.
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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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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.
