Film Quotes
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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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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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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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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.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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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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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
