Film Quotes
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I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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To do it on film, where it'll be seen by more people than have seen the play since it was written, it humbles you.
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I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.
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I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.
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Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
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Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.
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I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.
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I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.
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[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.
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This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.
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I had built my body to look like a boxer, then I lost it completely for 'Tanu Weds Manu Returns.' It was really tough gaining weight, building muscles, and then losing it completely for another film.
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting the scene, is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.
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Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.
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Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"
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If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
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If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.
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I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.
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You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
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If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.
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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
