Films Quotes
-
I think the work is the same in Indie films or blockbuster. It's just a difference when you do all the publicity. It's like another job. I remember the first time I did The Dreamers. I went to Venice; quite a good amount of publicity, a lot of round-tables and TV. I was just not expecting that. I thought I was going to visit Venice, but actually no.
-
Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.
-
I was trained on the stage, and I can do stage as well as I can do movies, but I prefer films.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.
-
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.
-
I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.
-
I'm interested in making films that make people think.
-
What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?
-
Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
-
Most of my films have been very character driven.
-
I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.
-
I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.
-
You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
-
I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.
-
I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.
-
You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
-
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.
-
People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.
-
I love rom-coms. Any will do. Films such as 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' or 'Funny Face' with Audrey Hepburn.
-
I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.
-
I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.
