Films Quotes
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I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.
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After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer.
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I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.
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Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
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Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.
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If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.
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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.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.
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Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.
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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
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For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.
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For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
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I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
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My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.
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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.
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I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films.
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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
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I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.
