Films Quotes
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Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.
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I've always kind of hated films about climate change.
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Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'
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I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
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I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
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I think a lot about the editing of the films when we're making them, partly because I studied that, and partly because if you think about being in love while you're supposed to be acting in love, there's nowhere to go. You have to focus on something else and then do what's being asked, and you might get some semblance of something interesting.
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Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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Toy Story 1, 2, and 3, to us, are some of the greatest films ever made, and each is better than the one before it. But if you go to Toy Story 6, they all end up decomposing in a trash heap somewhere.
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Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.
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Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.
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There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.
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Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
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There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
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Horror films don't create fear. They release it.
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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.
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I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
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Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and 'Shine' than 'Volcano.'
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I think optimism and humour are key words for me to make the films accessible, which means they can really travel and be seen by as many people as possible.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.
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My films, no one else will do.
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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.
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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.
