Films Quotes
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I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.
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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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I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
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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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I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.
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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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There are people who don't like to use other films as research, but I love it.
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I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.
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I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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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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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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I'm interested in making films that make people think.
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I love rom-coms. Any will do. Films such as 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' or 'Funny Face' with Audrey Hepburn.
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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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As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
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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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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
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If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that the films themselves even had an audience, let alone an audience for parodies of them.
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What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
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Personally, I just want to work on stuff that challenges me, that excites me, and that I think is original. You want to do something that does to other people what films do to you. It's the most wonderful thing in the world when you can lose yourself from reality and go into a story, and believe it and go on that journey with people, and you have to work that will somehow do that. It won't always, but hopefully sometimes.
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Those who permit music, films, etc, just don’t get it; they don’t realise the damage it does to the soul.
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I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.
