Film Quotes
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
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In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.
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You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
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I've always wanted to die in a film.
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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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I love being a part of the whole journey of a film being made.
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I never think about franchises, to be honest. I always just do the film.
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On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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When you make a film, you come to say something.
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I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...Edward Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.
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Basically, independent film doesn't exist anymore. It does if you have two or three stars in your film, but it's just very difficult.
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I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.
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A film is a portrait of an aspect of society.
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It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."
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I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
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I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.
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As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
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The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.
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Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
