Film Quotes
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Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would know what was possible without the Nollywood model, so I'm grateful to them for showing us that our stories are of interest to people other than Nigerians. I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.
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The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called She Married Her Boss with Melvyn Douglas.
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It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.
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In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.
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This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!
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A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
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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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My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
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I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.
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I love that this film Into the Forest has a balance.
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The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
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You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.
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In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.
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When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.
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Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.
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Brookline was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.
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It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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People say to me, why did you do those films, and I say, for money. It wasn't for diamond rings or kidney shaped swimming pools in Beverly Hills, it was in order to improve the lot of everyone around me.
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My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.
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I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.
