Films Quotes
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Good films not only help me grow as an actor but as a human being.
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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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I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.
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You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
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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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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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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
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I also loved that there in Into the Forest was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.
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Cara Delevingne I wanted to be sure that she would be involved. 'Cause she didn't do a lot of films before I met her, so I didn't know if she was serious and so I push her a bit.
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The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.
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I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
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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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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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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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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
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I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
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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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There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.
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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.
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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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I love films, I love the way they make me feel.
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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.
