Film Quotes
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Film is anti-language.
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If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.
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I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
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I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.
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What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
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I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.
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No one can guarantee success of a film.
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The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
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I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.
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I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film
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I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.
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I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.
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We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.
