Films Quotes
-
Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.
-
When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.
-
If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.
-
One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.
-
I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
-
Well I’ve been doing it for about twenty years, I did films when I was a little kid, when I was about six or seven, I was in films and I had this really high voice, I did a series called Dinobabies, that was my first one. And then after that I did Madeline, yeah so it just kind of happened and then never went away. Then everyone said your voice is going to change and you’ll be out... No, no, still on helium.
-
I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.
-
My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
-
I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
-
My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.
-
What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.
-
I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.
-
I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and there are great writers. It just takes a little bit more perseverance and a little bit more time to find [them].
-
When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.
-
I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
-
I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.
-
You work hard making independent films for fourteen years and you get voted best breasts.
-
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
-
I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
-
'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
-
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
-
I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
-
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
-
Awards and nominations really help sell films.
