Browsing Topic Best Film Quotes

Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The great thing about an independent film is that you’re too busy working, and you’re too busy hoping to God to get it done.

There’s things that I can do as an actor that I couldn’t do in any other form of life and I’ve got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I’ve got a nice comfy home.

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

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.

Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands – you never know, you know? I’m always rather anxious. It’s not like in theater when you are more in control. You’re more – not a puppet, but you don’t control it. You don’t own it.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete’s Dragon.

The best education in film is to make one

This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it’s awesome.

I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism – and we’ve had our lesson there. I don’t want to create a revolution – I just want to create a few more films.

Americans love to talk about the Constitution and how it protects the rights of every citizen and promises freedom to every citizen, but it’s also a country based on racism and they don’t talk about that too much and every time there’s a film which deals with it there’s certain parts of the country that feel uncomfortable.

I don’t look back, no. Maybe when I’m older; people say, ‘What’s your favorite film?’ I say, ‘My next one.’ I’m not interested in sitting around; I just don’t, never have.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

I’m a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don’t think I’d ever change back unless it was for a film.

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.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

A film can be big or small – I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, ‘You should do that for your career; it’s a big thing, people will go and see it,’ but I wouldn’t be able to, because my heart wouldn’t be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they’re brooding all the time.

It’s kind of weird to meet people that grew up in films who are still in touch with reality.

The only thing I’ll say, and I’m sure everyone says this, is stick with it. I’m not shy about telling people about the fact that my dream was to go to USC film school when I was growing up in New Jersey. I got rejected five times. You just keep going, keep going, keep going.

I’ve got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.

The film is made in the editing room.