Films Quotes
-
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.
-
Films are my life; I don't think there is anything that I would not do for the sake of the movie.
-
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
-
I think there are way too many films made, and I've probably made way too many films.
-
Those who permit music, films, etc, just don’t get it; they don’t realise the damage it does to the soul.
-
My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.
-
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.
-
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?'
-
I'd rather not make films than make bad ones.
-
I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
-
As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
-
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.
-
All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it.
-
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.
-
Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
-
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.
-
I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
-
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.
-
I'm interested in making films that make people think.
-
I've done some wonderful performance on TV even better than films. But once people watch it, they just forget it. The impact is not strong. So, films and TV are different.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.
-
There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material.
