Film Quotes
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.
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You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
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When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.
