Film Quotes
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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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Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
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The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.
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Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.
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I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
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I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.
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The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?
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But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?
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To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!
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If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
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I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
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From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.
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Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
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I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.
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I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
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I did a film about a con-artist mom and son called Bringing Up Bobby that Famke Janssen wrote and directed. No one's gonna hire me for their big-budget romantic comedy, so it's up to me to look out for great indie comedies and show people a different side of myself - even if it's for three people outside of my family.
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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
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It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.
