Film Quotes
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I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
