Film Quotes
-
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
-
My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
-
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
-
I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
-
When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.
-
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
-
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
-
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
-
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
-
Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
-
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
-
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
-
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
-
I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.
-
I got a call from Tom Hanks, who directed That Thing You Do!, when he was done cutting that film. I was like, "Oh, my god. Tom Hanks is calling me. This is amazing!" And then, of course, he was calling me to tell me that I was barely in the movie. But I'll never forget it - and this is why he's Tom Hanks, because he's got such a way with words.
-
I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
-
Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
-
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
-
The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
-
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
