Film Quotes
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It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.
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We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
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My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one Once Upon a Time in America.
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It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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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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Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.
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Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.
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The problem when you edit a film together, when you shoot a film, you are drawn into the moment. You want each moment to be special and full of life.
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I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action 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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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.
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Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.
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If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.
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I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.
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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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I'm really, really blessed. Not only am I blessed to have found that I love making films, but I'm also insanely blessed to be able to do it. I have to remind myself that when I'm complaining.
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I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.
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Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
