Movie Quotes
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Vicky Donor or Madras Caf, John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my director, too, is a debutante. I like the conviction with which they work, and that gives me a lot of confidence.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.
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We don't decide how a movie will be distributed until it's finished. It might be on iTunes, it might be on 3,000 theaters, but we make that decision after the fact.
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If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.
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Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.
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It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
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Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.
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If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
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What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
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I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.
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I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.
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Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.
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It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
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You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
