Films Quotes
-
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.
-
I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.
-
Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.
-
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.
-
Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
-
I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.
-
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.
-
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
-
Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
-
The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
-
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice. They are only interested in art, not in justice.
-
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
-
The problem with working with a record label is they maybe a song I want to make a video for that they will refuse to make a video for because they don't see that song as a single. And I found that very frustrating. I realised what I was doing was making these short films for the blind. They were films and all you had to do was put some headphones on and close your eyes and listen to my voice and you'd be able to visualise the images that I'm putting into your brain. And so I started calling what I was doing 'films for the blind'.
-
I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
-
Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
-
Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail it is a big story, which is why there are two more films coming, which will bring the total length of the series to 3 hours.
-
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
-
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.
-
It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
-
I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.
-
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?
-
I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.
-
I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
-
I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
